Convert German speech to text with high accuracy, low latency, and enterprise-grade scalability. Deepgram delivers real-time and batch transcription through a developer-first speech-to-text API.
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Get real-time German speech-to-text in under 300 ms while maintaining high accuracy in noisy, accented, or overlapping conversations.
Speakers: 95 million native speakers
Regions: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Belgium, Italy (South Tyrol)
Dialects: Low German, Bavarian, Alemannic, Swabian, Saxon, Franconian
Writing system: Latin alphabet with umlauts (Ä, Ö, Ü) and Eszett (ß)
Language family: West Germanic (Indo-European)
German is widely used across Europe's largest economy and major business hubs in Austria and Switzerland, making it a key language for call center analytics, customer support AI, healthcare transcription, legal documentation, media captioning, and multilingual voice agents.
Deepgram includes everything required to produce accurate, readable, and secure German transcripts out of the box.
Automatically detect and label who is speaking in multi-speaker German conversations.
Apply automatic capitalization, paragraphing, and clean transcript structure for German text.
Instantly find words or phrases inside long German recordings without reprocessing audio.
Segment streaming German audio into real-time sentence-level units for voice agents.
Add accurate punctuation and capitalization to German transcripts for easy reading.
Automatically remove sensitive data like credit cards, phone numbers, and PII from German transcripts.
Keyterm prompting for German
Boost recognition of brand names, product terms, and domain-specific vocabulary in German audio to improve keyword recall and transcript accuracy.
Automatic language detection
Identify when audio is spoken in German and transcribe it without pre-selecting a language. For mixed-language datasets, sources, and batch transcription pipelines.
Multilingual speech recognition
Transcribe audio where speakers switch between German and other supported languages in the same stream without model swapping or post processing required.
Start with German speech-to-text, then expand to 45+ languages using the same API, models, and tooling.
Start transcribing German audio with Deepgram's speech to text API. It is fast, accurate, and built for real-time applications.
