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Live Transcription with Twilio Media Streams and Deepgram

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Live transcription opens up powerful use cases: real-time call monitoring, accessibility features, and safety tooling.

We will walk through the core building blocks of a Twilio + Deepgram pipeline, including WebSocket handling, backpressure, and how to surface transcripts to a browser UI in a way that feels instant for the user.

We also share a few gotchas around reconnection logic and metrics that are worth tracking from day one.