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

Speakers: 1.5 million native speakers worldwide
Regions: Latvia (official language, 1.38–1.4 million speakers), Russia, USA, Australia, Canada, UK, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia, Sweden, Brazil
Dialects: Latgalian (spoken by approximately 8.4% in the Latgale region and 15% of Latvia's population overall)
Writing system: Latin alphabet with 32 letters, including diacritics (ā, č, ē, ģ, ī, ķ, ļ, ņ, ō, ŗ, š, ū, ž)
Language family: Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European family, specifically Baltic languages
Latvian is widely used across Latvia as the state and EU official language, making it a key language for call center analytics in bilingual environments, healthcare documentation and patient interactions, media transcription for TV and radio broadcasts, education and e-learning platforms, and legal proceedings including court transcription and citizenship processes.

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

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

Automatic language detection
Identify when audio is spoken in Latvian and transcribe it without pre-selecting a language. For mixed-language datasets, sources, and batch transcription pipelines.
Start with Latvian speech-to-text, then expand to 45+ languages using the same API, models, and tooling.
Start transcribing Latvian audio with Deepgram's speech to text API. It is fast, accurate, and built for real-time applications.