# November 10, 2025

## Entity Detection Now Available for Streaming Speech-to-Text

We're excited to announce that Entity Detection is now available for streaming (real-time) speech-to-text with Nova 3, Nova 2, Nova, and Enhanced models.

`detect_entities=true`

Previously available only for pre-recorded audio, you can now identify and extract over 50 unique entity types in real-time streaming transcriptions, including email addresses, names, locations, phone numbers, social security numbers, and more.

**Key features for streaming Entity Detection:**

- **Model support:** Nova 3, Nova 2, Nova, and Enhanced models only (not available for Base models or Flux)
- **Real-time detection:** Entities are included in final results (`is_final: true` messages)
- **Enhanced formatting:** Includes both `value` (formatted) and `raw_value` (original spoken text) fields when formatting is enabled
- **Automatic inclusion:** Empty `entities` array returned when no entities are detected

**Example usage:**

```javascript
const connection = deepgram.listen.live({
  model: "nova-3",
  language: "en-US",
  smart_format: true,
  detect_entities: true,
});
```

For detailed information, see our [Entity Detection documentation](/guides/self-hosted-deployments-6-detect-entities) and [supported entity types](/guides/formatting-supported-entity-types).

## 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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