Summarization

summarize boolean Default: false

As one of Deepgram's text-to-text features, Summarization accepts an input text and analyzes the text. It then summarizes the content of the submitted text and returns a brief summary in the JSON response.

 "results": {
    "summary": {
      "text": "Jake calls the Honda dealership and speaks with Josh about the new Honda Civic 2023. Jake schedules a test drive for the hybrid model on Friday and provides his contact information.Josh confirms the appointment and tells Jake to call if he has any further questions."
    }
  }

Enable Feature

To enable Summarization, use the following parameter in the query string when you call Deepgram’s /read endpoint :

summarize=true

Basic Text Request

To analyze text from a file on your computer, run the following curl command in a terminal or your favorite API client.

 curl -vX POST \
	-H "Authorization: Token YOUR_DEEPGRAM_API_KEY" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	-d '{"text": "YOUR_TEXT_HERE"}' \
	"https://api.deepgram.com/v1/read?summarize=true&language=en"

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Replace YOUR_DEEPGRAM_API_KEY with your Deepgram API Key.

Basic URL Request

To analyze text from a hosted file, run the following curl command in a terminal or your favorite API client. (Try testing it out with the hosted file https://static.deepgram.com/examples/aura.txt)

curl -vX POST \
 -H "Authorization: Token YOUR_DEEPGRAM_API_KEY" \
 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 -d '{"url": "https://YOUR_FILE_URL.txt"}' \
 "https://api.deepgram.com/v1/read?summarize=true&language=en"

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Read our Text Intelligence Getting Started guide, which will walk you through making a basic text request and a basic URL request with the Deepgram SDKs.

Query Parameters

Parameter	Value	Type	Description
`summarize`	`true`	boolean	Enables summarization. The output response will include a `summary` object, and within that object will be a `text`property that contains a short summary of the entire text.
`language`	`en`	string	The language of your input text (Only English is supported at this time)

Analyze Response

When the file is finished processing, you’ll receive a JSON response that has the following basic structure:

{
  "metadata": {
    "request_id": "6ab1afe9-da49-4688-86f5-ae2fde420ad4",
    "created": "2023-11-28T04:49:56.034Z",
    "language": "en",
    "summary_info": {
      "model_uuid": "67875a7f-c9c4-48a0-aa55-5bdb8a91c34a",
      "input_tokens": 21,
      "output_tokens": 33
    }
  },
  "results": {
    "summary": {
      "text": "Jake calls the Honda dealership and speaks with Josh about the new Honda Civic 2023. Jake schedules a test drive for the hybrid model on Friday and provides his contact information.Josh confirms the appointment and tells Jake to call if he has any further questions."
    }
  }
}

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Use the API reference or the API Playground to view the detailed response.

The summary object contains:

text: Short summary of the audio being summarized.

API Error Responses

Unsupported Language

Status 400

If you request Summarization with an unsupported language by specifying a language code such as summarize=true&language=es or summarize=true&detect_language=true where the detected language is unsupported, you will get the error message below.

{
  "err_code":"INVALID_QUERY_PARAMETER",
  "err_msg":"Request specified unsupported language: <language_name>. Only English is supported.",
  "request_id":"XXXX"
}

Token Limit Exceeded

Status 400

If the request's input length exceeded the 150k token rate limit per request, you will get the error message below.

{
  "err_code": "TOKEN_LIMIT_EXCEEDED",
  "err_msg": "Text input for <api_name> currently supports up to 150K tokens. Please revise your text input to fit within the defined token limit. For more information, please visit our API documentation.",
  "request_id": "XXXX"
}

Missing Query Parameter

Status 400

If the request sent contained only the feature parameter (summarize) but not the language parameter, you will receive this error.

{
  "err_code":"INVALID_QUERY_PARAMETER",
  "err_msg":"Failed to deserialize query parameters: missing field `language`",
  "request_id":"XXX"
}