Transcribe pre-recorded audio with speaker diarization using the Deepgram API
domain: developers.deepgram.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
POST the audio file (or a URL to it) to https://api.deepgram.com/v1/listen, authenticating with a Deepgram API key.
Add the diarize=true query parameter to enable speaker diarization on the request.
Optionally pin a diarization model version with diarize_model=v1 or diarize_model=v2 rather than relying on the floating latest alias.
Combine with utterances=true to receive the response grouped into speaker-labeled utterances rather than only per-word speaker tags.
Parse the response's word-level array, where each word includes a speaker index and speaker_confidence value.
Known gotchas
Batch (pre-recorded) diarization supports both v1 and v2 models, but streaming requests only support v1; passing diarize_model=v2 on a streaming connection returns a validation error.
Requests exceeding the file size or duration limits fail rather than being auto-chunked.
diarize=true labels speakers by index within that single file only; it does not identify or persist speaker identity across separate files.
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