# Text Intelligence Commands

## Basic Analysis

```shell
dg read "Customer called about a billing issue."
```

## Analyze a File

```shell
dg read --file document.txt
```

## Piped Input

```shell
cat transcript.txt | dg read
echo "Your text here" | dg read
```

## Available Features

### Sentiment Analysis

```shell
dg read --file document.txt --sentiment
```

Output includes overall document sentiment and its score.

### Topic Detection

```shell
dg read --file document.txt --topics
```

Returns detected topics with confidence scores.

### Summarization

```shell
dg read --file document.txt --summarize
```

Generates a brief summary of the content.

### Intent Recognition

```shell
dg read --file document.txt --intents
```

Detects user intents within the text.

### Full Analysis

```shell
dg read --file document.txt --sentiment --topics --summarize --intents
```

## Output Format

```shell
dg -o json read --file document.txt    # JSON
dg -o yaml read --file document.txt    # YAML
dg -o table read --file document.txt   # Formatted terminal table
dg -o csv read --file document.txt     # CSV
```

`-o` belongs to `dg` itself, so it goes before the subcommand name. Without it, `dg read` prints human-readable output.

## Use Cases

### Summarize Transcripts

```shell
dg listen meeting.mp3 | dg read --summarize
```

### Analyze Customer Feedback

```shell
dg read --file feedback.txt --sentiment --topics
```

## Related pages

- [Deepgram CLI — Getting Started](./self-hosted-deployments-developer-tools-cli-getting-started.md)
- [CLI Installation](./self-hosted-deployments-developer-tools-cli-installation.md)
- [CLI Authentication](./self-hosted-deployments-developer-tools-cli-authentication.md)
- [Speech-to-Text Commands](./self-hosted-deployments-developer-tools-cli-speech-to-text.md)
- [Text-to-Speech Commands](./self-hosted-deployments-developer-tools-cli-text-to-speech.md)
- [Account Management Commands](./self-hosted-deployments-developer-tools-cli-account-management.md)
- [MCP Server](./self-hosted-deployments-developer-tools-cli-mcp-server.md)
- [Shell Completion](./self-hosted-deployments-developer-tools-cli-shell-completion.md)
- [Plugin System](./self-hosted-deployments-developer-tools-cli-plugins.md)

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