starters

Deepgram Starter Apps

Clone a working demo and start building. Every starter is a minimal, runnable app you can extend.

1. Pick Your Feature

What do you want to build?

• Transcribe a file → transcription — send audio/video, get text back (REST, Nova)
• Transcribe a live stream → live-transcription — real-time speech-to-text (WebSocket, Nova)
• Generate speech → text-to-speech — send text, get audio back (REST)
• Stream speech → live-text-to-speech — real-time text-to-audio (WebSocket)
• Analyze text or audio → text-intelligence — sentiment, topics, intents, summaries (REST)
• Build a voice agent → voice-agent — conversational AI agent (WebSocket, agent.deepgram.com)
• Conversational STT with turn detection → flux — Deepgram Flux for voice agents and interactive assistants (WebSocket, /v2/listen)

Nova vs Flux for speech-to-text: use transcription or live-transcription (Nova, /v1/listen) for general-purpose transcription, captions, and batch workloads. Use flux (Flux, /v2/listen) when you need built-in turn detection for conversational audio. See the api skill for a full comparison.

2. Pick Your Stack

3. Clone and Run

Every starter lives at https://github.com/deepgram-starters/{framework}-{feature}:

git clone https://github.com/deepgram-starters/{framework}-{feature}.git
cd {framework}-{feature}

Set your API key and follow the README:

export DEEPGRAM_API_KEY=your_key_here

Get an API key at https://console.deepgram.com.

Examples

"I want to build a voice agent in Python" → git clone https://github.com/deepgram-starters/fastapi-voice-agent.git

"I need live transcription in my Node app" → git clone https://github.com/deepgram-starters/node-live-transcription.git

"I want to add text-to-speech to my Go service" → git clone https://github.com/deepgram-starters/go-text-to-speech.git

"I want to analyze audio for sentiment in C#" → git clone https://github.com/deepgram-starters/csharp-text-intelligence.git

All Starters

Need something more specific?

• Focused feature snippets (one feature, one language, < 50 lines) → recipes skill → https://github.com/deepgram/recipes
• Third-party integrations (Twilio, LiveKit, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Discord, etc.) → examples skill → https://github.com/deepgram/examples
• SDK-specific code skills (idiomatic imports, async patterns, gotchas) → npx skills add deepgram/deepgram-{lang}-sdk — see the api skill for the full list of 9 SDKs.

Related Deepgram skills

• api — consolidated REST + WebSocket API reference
• recipes — minimal runnable feature snippets per language
• examples — full integration examples with third-party platforms
• docs — documentation finder
• setup-mcp — Deepgram MCP server installation