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Using Deepgram Nova-2 on Deepgram API

Implementation guide · Deepgram Nova · Deepgram

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Deepgram API exposes Deepgram Nova-2 through model ID nova-2. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Deepgram API and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Deepgram API SDK or REST API to call nova-2 — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.004/min. See full pricing.
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Code Examples

See Deepgram API documentation for integration details.

Pricing on Deepgram API

TypeRate
Audio minute$0.004/min

Capabilities

MultimodalAudio

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.

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Model Specs

Released2023-09-19
ArchitectureAudio / Speech

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Provider

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San Francisco, California, United States