Telugu speech-to-text
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Fast and accurate Telugu speech recognition for real-world audio
Get real-time Telugu speech-to-text in under 300 ms while maintaining high accuracy in noisy, accented, or overlapping conversations.
Telugu language overview
Speakers: 75 million total speakers
Regions: India (Andhra Pradesh, Telangana), United States (California, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois, Virginia, Georgia)
Dialects: Coastal Andhra, Rayalaseema, Telangana
Writing system: Telugu script
Language family: Dravidian
Telugu is the official language of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in southeastern India, with a rapidly growing diaspora of 1.23 million speakers in the United States—making it the 11th most-spoken foreign language there. It is widely used in call centers, healthcare, media and entertainment, education (especially STEM programs), legal services, and IT/finance sectors, making it essential for call analytics, customer support AI, patient consultation transcription, media captioning, meeting transcription, and multilingual voice agents serving both Indian and US markets.
Telugu speech-to-text capabilities
Diarization
Automatically detect and label who is speaking in multi-speaker Telugu conversations.
Smart formatting
Apply automatic capitalization, paragraphing, and clean transcript structure for Telugu text.
Search
Instantly find words or phrases inside long Telugu recordings without reprocessing audio.
Utterances
Segment streaming Telugu audio into real-time sentence-level units for voice agents.
Punctuation
Add accurate punctuation and capitalization to Telugu transcripts for easy reading.
Redaction
Automatically remove sensitive data like credit cards, phone numbers, and PII from Telugu transcripts.
Keyterm prompting for Telugu
Boost recognition of brand names, product terms, and domain-specific vocabulary in Telugu audio to improve keyword recall and transcript accuracy.
Voice AI that performs in the real world
Low latency. Effortless scale. Production-grade reliability. Everything you need to build and run real-time voice experiences.
Domain-aware speech
Understand specialized terminology, names, accents, and industry-specific language with production-grade accuracy.
Expressive voices
Give every interaction a natural, consistent voice that adapts its tone when the conversation changes.
Context-aware delivery
Carry meaning, tone, and conversational state across turns so agents listen and respond more naturally.
Scale beyond Telugu with one API
Start with Telugu speech-to-text, then expand to 45+ languages using the same API, models, and tooling.
FAQ
Speech-to-text (also called automatic speech recognition, or ASR) converts spoken Telugu audio into written text. Deepgram processes the audio signal, detects speech in real time, and returns structured transcript data through an API. Developers use it for applications like voice agents, call analytics, captioning, and searchable media.
Yes. Deepgram supports automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Telugu audio. You can transcribe real-time or prerecorded audio by setting `language=te` in your API request.
Deepgram supports Telugu in the Nova model family. Model availability may vary by language, so check the Models & Languages page for the latest support details.
Yes. Deepgram provides low-latency streaming transcription for Telugu, suitable for live voice agents, call analytics, captioning, and other real-time applications.
Deepgram offers automatic language detection for many languages. You can enable it with `detect_language=true`. See the Language Detection documentation for the full list of supported languages.
Yes. Deepgram supports multilingual transcription and code-switching when using Nova's multilingual models. Set `language=multi` to enable it. See the Models & Languages page for supported languages.
Deepgram supports timestamps, punctuation, diarization, numeral formatting, filler-word detection, redaction, and more — all through the API.
Accuracy depends on model choice, audio quality, and domain. Nova models deliver state-of-the-art accuracy, and you can improve results further using Keyterm Prompting or Custom Models.
Sign up for a free Deepgram account to access your API key. You can test Telugu transcription instantly in the Playground, or call the API directly by sending audio to `/v1/listen` with `language=te`. Starter apps and code examples are available on GitHub.
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