starters

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by deepgram · part of deepgram/skills

Clone a ready-to-run Deepgram demo app and start building on top of it. Use whenever someone wants a quick working demo, needs to prototype with Deepgram, or is starting a new project that uses speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice agents, audio intelligence, or live streaming. Match the user's language, framework, and desired Deepgram feature to the right starter.

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🧩 One of 7 skills in the deepgram/skills package — works on its own, and pairs well with its siblings.

This is the playbook your agent receives when the skill activates — you don't need to read it to use the skill, but it's here to audit before installing.

Deepgram Starter Apps

Clone a working demo and start building. Every starter is a minimal, runnable app you can extend.

1. Pick Your Feature

What do you want to build?

Transcribe a file → transcription — send audio/video, get text back (REST, Nova)
Transcribe a live stream → live-transcription — real-time speech-to-text (WebSocket, Nova)
Generate speech → text-to-speech — send text, get audio back (REST, Aura)
Stream speech → live-text-to-speech — real-time text-to-audio (WebSocket, Aura)
Analyze text or audio → text-intelligence — sentiment, topics, intents, summaries (REST)
Build a voice agent → voice-agent — conversational AI agent (WebSocket, agent.deepgram.com)
Conversational STT with turn detection → flux — Deepgram Flux STT for voice agents and interactive assistants (WebSocket, /v2/listen)
Turn-based TTS for a voice agent → flux-tts — Deepgram Flux TTS, streaming synthesis with barge-in (WebSocket, /v2/speak)

Nova vs Flux STT for speech-to-text: use transcription or live-transcription (Nova, /v1/listen) for general-purpose transcription, captions, and batch workloads. Use flux (Flux STT, /v2/listen) when you need built-in turn detection for conversational audio. See the api skill for a full comparison.

Aura vs Flux TTS for text-to-speech: use text-to-speech or live-text-to-speech (Aura, /v1/speak) for one-shot synthesis, non-English voices, and compressed audio. Use flux-tts (Flux TTS, /v2/speak) when you're streaming LLM output to a speaker and need a turn lifecycle and barge-in. See the api skill for a full comparison.

Flux TTS starters exist for node, flask, fastapi, django, and java only — these are the five apps Deepgram officially publishes at Flux TTS template apps. There is no flux-tts starter for the other frameworks; don't construct those URLs. For an unsupported framework, start from the api skill's Flux TTS section and the SDK skills instead.

2. Pick Your Stack

Language	Frameworks
JavaScript	`node`
TypeScript	`bun`, `deno`
Python	`fastapi`, `flask`, `django`
Go	`go`
Java	`java`
C#	`csharp`
Rust	`rust`
Ruby	`ruby`
PHP	`php`
C++	`cpp`

3. Clone and Run

Every starter lives at https://github.com/deepgram-starters/{framework}-{feature}:

git clone https://github.com/deepgram-starters/{framework}-{feature}.git
cd {framework}-{feature}

Set your API key and follow the README:

export DEEPGRAM_API_KEY=your_key_here

Get an API key at https://console.deepgram.com.

Examples

"I want to build a voice agent in Python" → git clone https://github.com/deepgram-starters/fastapi-voice-agent.git

"I need live transcription in my Node app" → git clone https://github.com/deepgram-starters/node-live-transcription.git

"I want to add text-to-speech to my Go service" → git clone https://github.com/deepgram-starters/go-text-to-speech.git

"I want to analyze audio for sentiment in C#" → git clone https://github.com/deepgram-starters/csharp-text-intelligence.git

"I want streaming TTS with barge-in for my Node voice agent" → git clone https://github.com/deepgram-starters/node-flux-tts.git

All Starters

	transcription	live-transcription	text-to-speech	live-text-to-speech	text-intelligence	voice-agent	flux	flux-tts
node	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo
bun	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	—
deno	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	—
fastapi	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo
flask	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo
django	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo
go	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	—
java	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo
csharp	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	—
rust	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	—
ruby	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	—
php	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	—
cpp	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	repo	—

Need something more specific?

Focused feature snippets (one feature, one language, < 50 lines) → recipes skill → https://github.com/deepgram/recipes
Third-party integrations (Twilio, LiveKit, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Discord, etc.) → examples skill → https://github.com/deepgram/examples
SDK-specific code skills (idiomatic imports, async patterns, gotchas) → npx skills add deepgram/deepgram-{lang}-sdk — see the api skill for the full list of 9 SDKs.

api — consolidated REST + WebSocket API reference
recipes — minimal runnable feature snippets per language
examples — full integration examples with third-party platforms
docs — documentation finder
setup-mcp — Deepgram MCP server installation