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## Punctuation Improvements

[`punctuate`](https://developers.deepgram.com/api-reference/speech-recognition-api#operation/transcribeAudio/properties/punctuate)`=true`

We’ve recently adopted a new approach for how our ASR models predict punctuated outputs. Previously, this was handled as part of a post-processing step. Now, utilizing our newly developed and novel model architecture, we are able to represent punctuation tokens explicitly and incorporate them directly within model training. While this represents a significant evolution of our models, the implementation details have been completely contained internally, meaning that no client-side changes are needed to start benefiting from our most recent improvements.

When turned on, punctuation results are displayed at the transcript and word-level.

Read more about including [punctuation and capitalization](https://developers.deepgram.com/api-reference/speech-recognition-api#operation/transcribeAudio/properties/punctuate) in your transcripts in the [Deepgram Documentation](https://developers.deepgram.com/api-reference/speech-recognition-api).