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Automate Deepgram

Send recordings to Deepgram and get transcripts back without uploading files by hand: interviews, voice notes, podcast episodes and recorded calls. You can also watch your project balance so transcription doesn't stop when credit runs out. Describe it to your AI assistant, check what it will do, and it keeps running.

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Try asking

Create a ClickRuntime automation: give me a link I can send audio URLs to. Transcribe each one with Deepgram, include Deepgram's summary, and email me both.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in Deepgram

Transcripts with a short summary for any recording you point it at, and an early warning when your project balance gets low. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
The moment it happens

Email yourself a transcript of any recording

Send a link to an audio file and the transcript, with a short summary, arrives in your inbox.

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Daily

Get an alert when your Deepgram balance is low

You hear about a low project balance while there's still time to top up, so transcription keeps going.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Deepgram, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Deepgram automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Deepgram should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

When a call recording reaches my trigger link, transcribe it with Deepgram and flag the call if the customer mentions canceling.

For each new audio file in a Google Drive folder, transcribe it with Deepgram and save the text as a Google Doc.

When a new Zoom recording is ready, transcribe it with Deepgram, have AI write the notes into Notion and post the action items in Slack.

Beyond chat

Have Deepgram work when you're not in the chat

Connecting Deepgram to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

Setup

Connect Deepgram

You connect Deepgram with an API key from a project in your Deepgram Console. Keys belong to one project, can be given a role, and can expire.

Deepgram

AI / Speech-to-text

  1. Sign in to the Deepgram Console and open the project you want to use.
  2. Go to API Keys and create a key. Your first key has to be made here in the Console.
  3. Pick a role that covers the automation. Reading balances may need an admin or owner role.
  4. Copy the key. Deepgram expects it as Authorization: Token <key>, with Token rather than Bearer.
  5. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the key as a secret.

Good to know

Deepgram limits that affect automations

  • Audio is passed to Deepgram as a URL, so the file has to be publicly reachable.
  • Long recordings are handled with a callback, so the transcript arrives when Deepgram finishes rather than straight away.
  • If you set an expiry on the key, automations stop working when it expires. Create a new key and update the secret.
  • Checking the project balance may need a key with an admin or owner role; a member key can still transcribe.

FAQ

Questions about automating Deepgram

What can ClickRuntime do with my Deepgram key?
Send audio to Deepgram for transcription in the key's project, and, with a suitable role, read that project's balance. It works only in the project the key was created in.
Can it transcribe a file on my computer?
It needs a public link to the audio. Put the file somewhere that gives you a shareable URL and send that link to the automation.
Does the summary need a separate AI key?
No. The summary in the transcript automation comes from Deepgram itself. If you want other writing or rewriting on top, that uses the AI included with every ClickRuntime plan, so you don't need your own AI key.
How fast does the transcript arrive?
The automation starts as soon as you send it a link. Short clips come back quickly; long recordings finish through a callback and the email follows once Deepgram is done.
Why does my key need an admin role for the balance check?
Deepgram may restrict billing information to admin and owner roles. A member key can transcribe but may not be allowed to read balances.
Is this a Deepgram connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with Deepgram data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Deepgram while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each Deepgram event.

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