deepgram-js-audio-intelligence

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Use when writing or reviewing JavaScript/TypeScript in this repo that calls Deepgram audio analytics overlays on `/v1/listen` - summarize, topics, intents, sentiment, diarize, redact, detect_language, and entity detection. Same endpoint as plain STT, different params. Covers REST via `client.listen.v1.media.transcribeUrl` / `transcribeFile` and the WebSocket-supported subset on `client.listen.v1.createConnection()` / `connect()`. Use `deepgram-js-speech-to-text` for plain transcription and `deepgram-js-text-intelligence` for analytics on already-transcribed text. Triggers include "audio intelligence", "summarize audio", "diarize", "sentiment from audio", "redact PII", and "detect language audio".

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Using Deepgram Audio Intelligence (JavaScript / TypeScript SDK)

Analytics overlays applied to /v1/listen: summaries, topics, intents, sentiment, language detection, diarization, redaction, entities. Same client surface as STT; turn features on with parameters.

When to use this product

You have audio and want analytics returned alongside the transcript.
REST is the primary path; the WebSocket path supports only a subset of intelligence features.

Use a different skill when:

You just want transcript output → deepgram-js-speech-to-text.
You already have text and want analytics on that text → deepgram-js-text-intelligence.
You need Flux turn-taking → deepgram-js-conversational-stt.
You need a full interactive voice agent → deepgram-js-voice-agent.

Feature availability: REST vs WSS

Feature	REST	WSS
`diarize`	yes	yes
`redact`	yes	yes
`detect_entities`	yes	yes
`punctuate`, `smart_format`	yes	yes
`summarize`	yes	no in current WSS connect args
`topics`	yes	no
`intents`	yes	no
`sentiment`	yes	no
`detect_language`	yes	no

Authentication

require("dotenv").config();

const { DeepgramClient } = require("@deepgram/sdk");

const deepgramClient = new DeepgramClient({
  apiKey: process.env.DEEPGRAM_API_KEY,
});

Quick start — REST with analytics

From examples/22-transcription-advanced-options.ts:

const data = await deepgramClient.listen.v1.media.transcribeUrl({
  url: "https://dpgr.am/spacewalk.wav",
  model: "nova-3",
  language: "en",
  punctuate: true,
  paragraphs: true,
  utterances: true,
  smart_format: true,
  sentiment: true,
  topics: true,
  custom_topic: "custom_topic",
  custom_topic_mode: "extended",
  intents: true,
  custom_intent: "custom_intent",
  custom_intent_mode: "extended",
  detect_entities: true,
  detect_language: true,
  diarize: true,
  keyterm: ["keyword1", "keyword2"],
  redact: ["pci", "ssn"],
});

Quick start — WSS subset

Start from examples/07-transcription-live-websocket.ts and keep the same socket flow, but only use WSS-supported intelligence flags such as diarize, redact, and detect_entities in the connection args.

const deepgramConnection = await deepgramClient.listen.v1.createConnection({
  model: "nova-3",
  diarize: true,
  redact: "pci",
  detect_entities: true,
});

Key parameters / API surface

Analytics flags: summarize, topics, intents, sentiment, detect_language, detect_entities, diarize, redact, custom_topic, custom_topic_mode, custom_intent, custom_intent_mode.
Standard STT flags still apply: model, language, encoding, sample_rate, punctuate, smart_format, utterances, paragraphs, multichannel.
Nova-3-specific biasing in repo examples uses keyterm, not keywords.

API reference (layered)

In-repo reference: reference.md → Listen V1 Media; WSS subset behavior lives in src/CustomClient.ts and src/api/resources/listen/resources/v1/client/{Client,Socket}.ts.
Canonical OpenAPI (REST): https://developers.deepgram.com/openapi.yaml
Canonical AsyncAPI (WSS): https://developers.deepgram.com/asyncapi.yaml
Context7: library ID /llmstxt/developers_deepgram_llms_txt
Product docs:

Gotchas

summarize on /v1/listen is versioned, not plain boolean. The generated REST surface and examples point at "v2".
Most intelligence flags are REST-only. Current WSS connect args do not expose topics, intents, sentiment, summarize, or detect_language.
redact typing is looser in practice than in the generated alias. Examples pass arrays like ["pci", "ssn"], even though ListenV1Redact itself is just a string alias.
Use keyterm for Nova-3 biasing. examples/22-transcription-advanced-options.ts explicitly notes keywords are not supported for Nova-3.
Model/feature support is product-side. nova-3 is the safest choice when mixing many overlays.
Diarization quality depends on audio quality and duration. Short or noisy clips churn speakers.

Example files in this repo

examples/22-transcription-advanced-options.ts
examples/04-transcription-prerecorded-url.ts
examples/05-transcription-prerecorded-file.ts
examples/07-transcription-live-websocket.ts

Central product skills

For cross-language Deepgram product knowledge — the consolidated API reference, documentation finder, focused runnable recipes, third-party integration examples, and MCP setup — install the central skills:

npx skills add deepgram/skills

This SDK ships language-idiomatic code skills; deepgram/skills ships cross-language product knowledge (see api, docs, recipes, examples, starters, setup-mcp).