Support for Deepgram, other STT APIs
Whisper AI is one of those rare technologies that has almost exhausted my ability to generate feature requests because it pretty much just works, which is a great achievement!
But in the spirit of sharing ideas and because it's something that I thought about in the early days of testing this stuff out, I wanted to put in the idea that supporting a variety of SGT Cloud APIs might be useful for users.
I'm guessing that it would be more hassle than it's worth and it's not really in sync with the Whisper brand (!), but DeepGram's APIs are good, and there are a few others that are useful too.
One use case that I would highlight is that I believe a couple of these more niche platforms have explicit support for speaker accents in their API architecture.
Users who have very pronounced or more unusual accents might find that the recognition is enhanced with these without having to go through the trouble of fine-tuning a model.
Some other providers I’ve come across: Gladia, Speechmatics.
As ASR is really heating up, I imagine the list will just keep growing.
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Daniel Rosehill
Apr 11, 2025
So, I have to walk this one back a little.
I've tried out Deepgram a bit and I have to say I'm really not blown away by it.
So far, Whisper seems to deliver the most reliable performance of any real-time STT I've tried.