Flask Live Transcription Starter

Get started using Deepgram's Live Transcription with this Flask demo app.

What is Deepgram?

Deepgram’s voice AI platform provides APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and full speech-to-speech voice agents. Over 200,000+ developers use Deepgram to build voice AI products and features.

Sign-up to Deepgram

Before you start, it's essential to generate a Deepgram API key to use in this project. Sign-up now for Deepgram and create an API key.

Quickstart

Manual

Follow these steps to get started with this starter application.

Clone the repository

Go to GitHub and clone the repository.

Install dependencies

Install the project dependencies.

pip install -r requirements.txt

or with uv,

uv venv
uv pip install -r requirements.txt

Edit the config file

Copy the code from sample.env and create a new file called .env. Paste in the code and enter your API key you generated in the Deepgram console.

DEEPGRAM_API_KEY=%api_key%

Run the application

You need to run the app.py (port 8001) to in your browser and access it at http://127.0.0.1:8001

python app.py

or if using uv,

uv run python app.py

Issue Reporting

If you have found a bug or if you have a feature request, please report them at this repository issues section. Please do not report security vulnerabilities on the public GitHub issue tracker. The Security Policy details the procedure for contacting Deepgram.

Getting Help

We love to hear from you so if you have questions, comments or find a bug in the project, let us know! You can either:

• Open an issue in this repository
• Join the Deepgram Github Discussions Community
• Join the Deepgram Discord Community

Author

Deepgram

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.