← Speech-to-Text 
Deepgram
Base Phonecall
Measured 2026-09-28
Build voice agents on Speko →Base Phonecall is measured here for comparison — it is not one of the models Speko routes.
WER · batch
—
WER · streaming
Read speech
27.03%
Conversation
34.51%
Details
Read speech
n=1541 · FLEURS test+dev+train · vendor-direct
Conversation
29.3–39.9% · EdAcc n=283 · 60 speakers, 2 passes, 2026-10-01
4 of 566 readings came back empty, scored as all-deletion.
Finalize
171ms
p50–p90 · US East · n=200 · vendor-direct · ±14%
Time to first token
1.01s
p50–p90 · US East · n=200 · vendor-direct · ±46%
Cost / min
—
Not on Deepgram’s pay-as-you-go price list (checked 2026-09-28).
Share this result
Embed the live badge
Markdown
[](https://benchmarks.speko.ai/stt/deepgram-base-phonecall)
HTML
<a href="https://benchmarks.speko.ai/stt/deepgram-base-phonecall"><img src="https://benchmarks.speko.ai/badge/stt/deepgram-base-phonecall.svg" alt="Speko stt rank"></a>
URL
https://benchmarks.speko.ai/stt/deepgram-base-phonecall