This guide compares OpenAI's Whisper, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, and Deepgram for speech-to-text needs in 2026, analyzing their accuracy, cost, privacy, and deployment flexibility. It aims to help users like developers and journalists choose the right engine based on benchmarks and technical characteristics.
This content explains how to transcribe WhatsApp audio messages into searchable text PDFs using ChatToPDF. It details the process of exporting chat media and uploading the ZIP file to the service, highlighting the Premium+Voice and Power User tiers that leverage Deepgram Nova-3 for high-accuracy transcription across 17 languages.
Deepgram's production Speech-to-Text (STT) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) voice models are now natively available on Together AI. This integration provides dedicated model inference for developing real-time voice agents.