Korean Speech to Text
Convert Korean 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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Fast and accurate Korean speech recognition for real-world audio
Get real-time Korean speech-to-text in under 300 ms while maintaining high accuracy in noisy, accented, or overlapping conversations.
Korean Language Overview
Speakers: 82 million total speakers
Regions: South Korea, North Korea, China, United States, Japan, Russia
Dialects: Seoul (standard), Pyongyang (standard), Gyeongsang, Jeolla, Chungcheong, Jeju Island
Writing system: Hangul (alphabetic script with 14 consonants and 10 vowels)
Language family: Language isolate
Korean is widely used across South Korea, North Korea, and significant diaspora communities in China, the United States, Japan, and Russia, making it a key language for call center analytics, healthcare documentation, media captioning and localization for K-pop and K-dramas, multilingual customer support, and legal transcription services.
Korean Speech-to-Text Capabilities
Deepgram includes everything required to produce accurate, readable, and secure Korean transcripts out of the box.
Diarization
Automatically detect and label who is speaking in multi-speaker Korean conversations.
Smart formatting
Apply automatic capitalization, paragraphing, and clean transcript structure for Korean text.
Search
Instantly find words or phrases inside long Korean recordings without reprocessing audio.
Utterances
Segment streaming Korean audio into real-time sentence-level units for voice agents.
Punctuation
Add accurate punctuation and capitalization to Korean transcripts for easy reading.
Redaction
Automatically remove sensitive data like credit cards, phone numbers, and PII from Korean transcripts.
Korean Speech-to-Text features
Keyterm prompting for Korean
Boost recognition of brand names, product terms, and domain-specific vocabulary in Korean audio to improve keyword recall and transcript accuracy.
Automatic language detection
Identify when audio is spoken in Korean and transcribe it without pre-selecting a language. For mixed-language datasets, sources, and batch transcription pipelines.
Scale beyond Korean with one API
Start with Korean speech-to-text, then expand to 45+ languages using the same API, models, and tooling.
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