Useful Things to Know about Deepgram's Speech-To-Text API
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Published: 2022-04-05 09:40:24

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### Introduction

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The thing I love most about Deepgram Speech-to-Text API is the great get-started guide. The well detailed get-started documentation that a beginner can understand is what makes it stand out as a Speech-To-Text API. You can find the getting-started here at [developers.deepgram.com](https://developers.deepgram.com/documentation/getting-started/streaming/)

### My Deepgram Use-Case

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The get started guide about Deepgram is great. However, Deepgram will gain more advantage as it progresses if it leverages open-source documentation. This will help if be more clearer and in-depth going forward.

### Dive into Details
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Seeing Deepgram for the first time, I immediately fell in love with it. I found Deepgram as I was mindlessly scrolling through Dev.to. I said, let me look at it. It is there that I realized the amazing Speech-to-Text API that was being developed by Deepgram.

The features like Transcribing pre-recorded audio, with the use of their API, you can transcribed audio that you recorded on your local device or remotely.

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With the great documentation and the need for speech to text in many of our daily uses, Deepgram's Speech-To-Text technology will be a great addition to help in advancing humanity.

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