Convert Italian 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 Italian speech-to-text in under 300 ms while maintaining high accuracy in noisy, accented, or overlapping conversations.

Speakers: 64-67 million native speakers, with an additional 20-30 million L2 speakers
Regions: Italy (primary), Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, with significant communities in Argentina, United States, Brazil, France, Germany, and Australia
Dialects: Tuscan (standard), Venetian, Lombard, Romanesco, Neapolitan, Sicilian
Writing system: Latin alphabet (21 core letters with diacritics)
Language family: Italo-Dalmatian branch of Romance languages, Indo-European family
Italian is widely used across Europe, the Americas, and growing digital markets, making it a key language for call center analytics, customer support AI, healthcare transcription, media captioning, legal proceedings, and multilingual voice agents in banking, telecommunications, and e-commerce sectors.

Deepgram includes everything required to produce accurate, readable, and secure Italian transcripts out of the box.
Automatically detect and label who is speaking in multi-speaker Italian conversations.
Apply automatic capitalization, paragraphing, and clean transcript structure for Italian text.
Instantly find words or phrases inside long Italian recordings without reprocessing audio.
Segment streaming Italian audio into real-time sentence-level units for voice agents.
Add accurate punctuation and capitalization to Italian transcripts for easy reading.
Automatically remove sensitive data like credit cards, phone numbers, and PII from Italian transcripts.

Keyterm prompting for Italian
Boost recognition of brand names, product terms, and domain-specific vocabulary in Italian audio to improve keyword recall and transcript accuracy.

Automatic language detection
Identify when audio is spoken in Italian 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 Italian and other supported languages in the same stream without model swapping or post processing required.
Start with Italian speech-to-text, then expand to 45+ languages using the same API, models, and tooling.
Start transcribing Italian audio with Deepgram's speech to text API. It is fast, accurate, and built for real-time applications.