AI SDK - Deepgram Provider

The Deepgram provider for the AI SDK contains transcription model support for the Deepgram transcription API and speech model support for the Deepgram text-to-speech API.

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Setup

The Deepgram provider is available in the @ai-sdk/deepgram module. You can install it with

npm i @ai-sdk/deepgram

Skill for Coding Agents

If you use coding agents such as Claude Code or Cursor, we highly recommend adding the AI SDK skill to your repository:

npx skills add vercel/ai

Provider Instance

You can import the default provider instance deepgram from @ai-sdk/deepgram:

import { deepgram } from '@ai-sdk/deepgram';

Examples

Transcription

import { deepgram } from '@ai-sdk/deepgram';
import { transcribe } from 'ai';

const { text } = await transcribe({
  model: deepgram.transcription('nova-3'),
  audio: new URL(
    'https://github.com/vercel/ai/raw/refs/heads/main/examples/ai-functions/data/galileo.mp3',
  ),
});

Transcription with Language Detection

import { deepgram } from '@ai-sdk/deepgram';
import { transcribe } from 'ai';

const { text, language } = await transcribe({
  model: deepgram.transcription('nova-3'),
  audio: new URL(
    'https://github.com/vercel/ai/raw/refs/heads/main/examples/ai-functions/data/galileo.mp3',
  ),
  providerOptions: {
    deepgram: {
      detectLanguage: true,
    },
  },
});

Text-to-Speech

import { deepgram } from '@ai-sdk/deepgram';
import { generateSpeech } from 'ai';

const { audio } = await generateSpeech({
  model: deepgram.speech('aura-2-helena-en'),
  text: 'Hello, welcome to Deepgram!',
});

Documentation

Please check out the Deepgram provider documentation for more information.