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Why use Deepgram Nova-2 on Deepgram API?
Deepgram API offers Deepgram Nova-2 with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.004/minute. Deepgram's API provides hosted speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice-agent audio models, including Nova, Flux, and Aura model families.
Setup recipe
Docs fallbackUse the provider REST API or SDKCreate a provider API keymodel: nova-2nova-2Request example
nova-2.Gotchas
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Capabilities
About Deepgram Nova-2
Nova-2 is Deepgram's previous-generation flagship speech-to-text model, released September 2023. Delivers ~36% WER improvement over Whisper Large across tested domains (8.4% median WER), with improved entity recognition, punctuation, and capitalization. Supports 36+ languages and 10 domain-specific variants (general, meeting, phonecall, voicemail, finance, conversationalai, video, medical, drivethru, automotive). Batch: $0.0043/min; streaming: $0.0077/min. API ID: nova-2.
FAQ
What API model ID do I use for Deepgram Nova-2 on Deepgram API?
Use the model ID nova-2 when calling Deepgram API's API.
Who created Deepgram Nova-2?
Deepgram Nova-2 was created by Deepgram as part of the Deepgram Nova model family.
Is Deepgram Nova-2 open source?
Deepgram Nova-2 is not open source; the seed data lists it as proprietary.