diff --git a/src/dailyai/services/deepgram_ai_service.py b/src/dailyai/services/deepgram_ai_service.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1ede1c35d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/dailyai/services/deepgram_ai_service.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+import os
+import aiohttp
+import requests
+
+from dailyai.services.ai_services import TTSService
+
+
+class DeepgramAIService(TTSService):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        *,
+        aiohttp_session: aiohttp.ClientSession,
+        api_key,
+        voice,
+        sample_rate=16000
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+
+        self._api_key = api_key
+        self._voice = voice
+        self._sample_rate = sample_rate
+        self._aiohttp_session = aiohttp_session
+
+    async def run_tts(self, sentence):
+        self.logger.info(f"Running deepgram tts for {sentence}")
+        base_url = "https://api.beta.deepgram.com/v1/speak"
+        request_url = f"{base_url}?model={self._voice}&encoding=linear16&container=none&sample_rate={self._sample_rate}"
+        headers = {"authorization": f"token {self._api_key}", "Content-Type": "application/json"}
+        data = {"text": sentence}
+
+        async with self._aiohttp_session.post(
+            request_url, headers=headers, json=data
+        ) as r:
+            async for chunk in r.content:
+                if chunk:
+                    yield chunk
diff --git a/src/dailyai/services/to_be_updated/deepgram_ai_service.py b/src/dailyai/services/to_be_updated/deepgram_ai_service.py
deleted file mode 100644
index b4569e6cd..000000000
--- a/src/dailyai/services/to_be_updated/deepgram_ai_service.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-import os
-import requests
-
-from services.ai_service import AIService
-from PIL import Image
-
-
-class DeepgramAIService(AIService):
-    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
-        super().__init__(**kwargs)
-
-        self.api_key = os.getenv("DEEPGRAM_API_KEY")
-
-    def get_mic_sample_rate(self):
-        return 24000
-
-    def run_tts(self, sentence):
-        self.logger.info(f"Running deepgram tts for {sentence}")
-        base_url = "https://api.beta.deepgram.com/v1/speak"
-        # move this to an environment variable
-        voice = os.getenv("DEEPGRAM_VOICE") or "alpha-apollo-en-v1"
-        request_url = f"{base_url}?model={voice}&encoding=linear16&container=none"
-        headers = {"authorization": f"token {self.api_key}"}
-
-        r = requests.post(request_url, headers=headers, data=sentence)
-        self.logger.info(
-            f"audio fetch status code: {r.status_code}, content length: {len(r.content)}"
-        )
-        yield r.content