# Getting Started

:::card{title="Deepgram API Playground" href="https://playground.deepgram.com/?endpoint=agent"}
Try this feature out in our API Playground.
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Deepgram’s Voice Agent API handles the full speech pipeline (listening, thinking, and speaking) so you can focus on what your agent does, not how it hears or talks.

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:::card{title="Build a Voice Agent" href="/guides/self-hosted-deployments-3-build-a-voice-agent"}
Step-by-step guide to creating your first voice agent with Python, JavaScript, C#, or Go using the server-side SDKs and WebSocket API.
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:::card{title="Configure Your Agent" href="/guides/self-hosted-deployments-3-configure-voice-agent"}
Set up speech-to-text models, LLM providers, TTS voices, endpointing, and audio formats for your voice agent.
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:::card{title="Function Calling" href="/guides/self-hosted-deployments-3-voice-agents-function-calling"}
Let your agent call external APIs and tools mid-conversation.
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:::card{title="Multi-Agent Architecture" href="/guides/self-hosted-deployments-3-multi-agent-architecture"}
Build systems where multiple specialized agents hand off conversations based on context, intent, or domain expertise.
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## Explore Further

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:::card{title="Reusable Configurations" href="/guides/self-hosted-deployments-3-reusable-agent-configurations"}
Save and reuse agent settings across projects.
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:::card{title="Telephony" href="/guides/self-hosted-deployments-3-inbound-telephony-agent"}
Connect voice agents to phone networks for inbound and outbound calls.
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:::card{title="Browser Agent SDK" href="/guides/self-hosted-deployments-3-browser-agent-overview"}
Add voice AI to any web application. Four composable packages, from a single script tag to a fully custom React interface.
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:::card{title="Prompting" href="/guides/self-hosted-deployments-3-prompting-voice-agents"}
Write effective system prompts that shape how your agent behaves on a live call.
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:::card{title="Template Apps" href="/guides/self-hosted-deployments-3-voice-agent-template-apps"}
Clone a working voice agent project and start building.
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:::card{title="API Reference" href="/guides/self-hosted-deployments-2-reference-voice-agent-voice-agent"}
Complete WebSocket protocol reference for the Agent API.
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:::card{title="Feature Overview" href="/guides/self-hosted-deployments-3-voice-agent-feature-overview"}
Full list of Voice Agent API capabilities.
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## Related pages

- [Amazon SageMaker](./amazon-sagemaker-index.md)
- [Aura](./aura-index.md)
- [Changelog](../changelog.md)
- [Custom Vocabulary](./custom-vocabulary-index.md)
- [Deepgram's Docs](../index.md)
- [Deployment](./deployment-index.md)
- [Docker/Podman](./docker-podman-index.md)
- [Features](./features-index.md)
- [Flux TTS](./flux-tts-index.md)
- [Formatting](./formatting-index.md)

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