Introducing Flux: Conversational Speech Recognition to Solve the Biggest Problem in Voice Agents – Interruptions
Flux is here: the first real-time Conversational Speech Recognition model built for voice agents. Solve interruptions, cut latency, and ship natural conversations faster than ever. Deepgram is proud to announce the release of Flux , the first speech recognition model that knows when someone is actually done talking.
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This Release Contains The Following Changes
⚠️ Important : Please refrain from using this release version if you run Nova-3 diarization. General Improvements , Keeps our software up-to-date.
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Flux: Expanded Audio Format Support
Flux now supports a wider range of audio formats beyond linear16 , giving you more flexibility in how you send audio to our conversational speech recognition model. This update adds support for additional raw audio encodings and containerized audio formats.
Raw Audio Format Support
Flux now accepts the following raw (non-containerized) audio encodings: linear16 - 16-bit signed little-endian PCM (existing) linear32 - 32-bit signed little-endian PCM (new) mulaw - Mu-law encoding (new) alaw - A-law encoding (new) opus - Opus codec (new) ogg-opus - Opus in Ogg container (new) When using raw audio formats, you must specify both the...
Containerized Audio Support
Flux now also accepts containerized audio formats, eliminating the need to manually specify encoding and sample rate parameters: WAV containers with linear16 encoding Ogg containers with opus encoding When sending containerized audio, omit the encoding and sample_rate parameters, Flux will automatically detect these from the container metadata.