What Deepgram shipped in 2026

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Voice Agents That Prioritize Data Security and Run Where Your Data Lives

Deepgram launched a Voice Agent API that integrates NVIDIA Nemotron models (Nemotron 3 Nano and Super) to enable sub-700ms end-to-end latency for voice agents deployed in customer VPCs, on-prem, or hy…

Deepgram launches self-hosted voice AI deployment with enterprise prerequisites

Deepgram introduced self-hosted deployment options for its voice AI services, targeting use cases with strict performance or security requirements. The offering requires an Enterprise Plan, direct lic…

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AI Voice Agents Improve Patient Engagement: What the Evidence Actually Shows

Deepgram’s analysis finds no peer-reviewed studies validating vendor claims of 30–50% appointment booking lifts from AI voice agents in healthcare. Most evidence comes from vendor case studies with sh…

Hinglish: The Language 600M+ Indians Speak and Why Your Voice AI Keeps Failing

Deepgram introduced multilingual code-switching capabilities in its speech-to-text API to handle Hinglish, a blend of Hindi and English spoken by 600M+ Indians. The feature detects language shifts wit…

Why Word Error Rate Is Broken for Indian Languages: The BRIDGE 7-Metric Stack Explained

Deepgram argues that Word Error Rate (WER) systematically overstates errors for Indian languages due to morphological agglutination, script diversity, and code-switching. They propose the BRIDGE 7-met…

Evaluating Voice AI Agents for Healthcare: The Compliance and Accuracy Checklist You're Missing

Deepgram released a detailed checklist for evaluating voice AI agents in healthcare, emphasizing the intersection of HIPAA compliance and transcription accuracy. The guide highlights medical-specific …

What is Code-Switching? A Complete Guide for ASR Builders

Code-switching in speech can cause ASR error rates to spike up to 11x higher, with monolingual systems failing at language boundaries. Unified multilingual models and specialized metrics like PIER are…

Deepgram adds Gemini 3.5 Flash to Voice Agent API and deprecates older models

Deepgram introduced the managed Google Gemini 3.5 Flash model in its Voice Agent API, replacing the older Gemini 2.5 Flash family. The new model improves performance and efficiency, while the 2.5 Flas…

How AI Voice Agents Work: A Beginner's Guide

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Deepgram expanded profanity filtering to all multilingual models (Nova-2, Nova-3, Flux) via the profanity_filter=true API parameter, replacing inappropriate language with asterisks. It also fixed miss…

Deepgram adds Google’s Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite to Voice Agent API

Deepgram introduced the managed Google LLM model `gemini-3.1-flash-lite` in its Voice Agent API, replacing the preview version. The deprecated `gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview` will be removed on May 26…

Call Center Compliance Regulations and Action Plan for 2026

Call center compliance in 2026 will require managing four regulatory layers: federal (TCPA, HIPAA, PCI DSS 4.0), state AI disclosure laws (Utah, California, Texas), international rules (GDPR, EU AI Ac…

Playground vs API: The Hidden Pronunciation Gap in Modern TTS

Deepgram highlights a critical gap where playground TTS demos mask pronunciation failures that emerge in production, particularly with raw user inputs like numbers, proper nouns, and domain terms. The…