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title: "Deepgram / Transcribe an audio or video file to text"
description: "Deepgram tool deepgram-listen on looot: input fields, $0.000072 per result, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Speech to text: transcribes a pre-recorded audio or video file from its URL with Deepgram. Send url; model, diarize, topics, intents and redact set options. Returns the transcript with word timings, plus duration and model info.

- **Tool id:** `deepgram-listen`
- **Provider:** [Deepgram](/providers/deepgram)
- **Job:** [Transcribe an audio or video file to text](/reference/jobs/audio-transcribe) (`audio.transcribe`)
- **Price:** $0.000072 per result. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `url` | string | yes |   |
| `callback` | string | no |   |
| `callback_method` | string | no |   |
| `custom_intent` | string | no |   |
| `custom_intent_mode` | string | no |   |
| `custom_topic` | string | no |   |
| `custom_topic_mode` | string | no |   |
| `detect_entities` | boolean | no |   |
| `detect_language` | string | no |   |
| `diarize` | boolean | no |   |
| `diarize_model` | string | no |   |
| `dictation` | boolean | no |   |
| `encoding` | string | no |   |
| `extra` | string | no |   |
| `filler_words` | boolean | no |   |
| `intents` | boolean | no |   |
| `keyterm` | array | no |   |
| `keywords` | string | no |   |
| `language` | string | no |   |
| `measurements` | boolean | no |   |
| `mip_opt_out` | boolean | no |   |
| `model` | string | no |   |
| `multichannel` | boolean | no |   |
| `numerals` | boolean | no |   |
| `paragraphs` | boolean | no |   |
| `profanity_filter` | boolean | no |   |
| `punctuate` | boolean | no |   |
| `redact` | string | no |   |
| `replace` | string | no |   |
| `search` | string | no |   |
| `sentiment` | boolean | no |   |
| `smart_format` | boolean | no |   |
| `summarize` | string | no |   |
| `tag` | string | no |   |
| `topics` | boolean | no |   |
| `utt_split` | number | no |   |
| `utterances` | boolean | no |   |
| `version` | string | no |   |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, checked against 3 real answers:

```txt
{ results: { channels: { alternatives: { ... }[] }[] }, metadata: { models: string[], sha256, created, channels, duration, model_info: Record<string, { ... }>, request_id, transaction_key } }
```

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

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```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"deepgram-listen","input":{"url":"https://example.com"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "deepgram-listen",
    input: {
      url: "https://example.com",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "deepgram-listen",
        "input": {
            "url": "https://example.com",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

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To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:audio.transcribe` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/audio-transcribe).