> For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL. > For a complete documentation index, see https://developers.deepgram.com/llms.txt. > For AI client integration (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), connect to the MCP server at https://developers.deepgram.com/_mcp/server. # Profanity Filtering * [Try Profanity Filter in the Playground](https://playground.deepgram.com/?endpoint=listen\&profanity_filter=true\&language=en\&model=base) `profanity_filter` *boolean* Default: `false` Pre-recorded Streaming:Nova Streaming:Flux Specific languages only Deepgram’s profanity filtering feature masks offensive language in transcripts using asterisks. Profanity filtering is available for the following languages: * **Arabic**: `ar`, `ar-AE`, `ar-SA`, `ar-QA`, `ar-KW`, `ar-SY`, `ar-LB`, `ar-PS`, `ar-JO`, `ar-EG`, `ar-SD`, `ar-TD`, `ar-MA`, `ar-DZ`, `ar-TN`, `ar-IQ`, `ar-IR` * **Belarusian**: `be` * **Bengali**: `bn` * **Bosnian**: `bs` * **Bulgarian**: `bg` * **Catalan**: `ca` * **Chinese**: `zh`, `zh-CN`, `zh-TW` * **Chinese (Cantonese, Traditional)**: `zh-HK` * **Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified)**: `zh`, `zh-CN`, `zh-Hans` * **Chinese (Mandarin, Traditional)**: `zh-TW`, `zh-Hant` * **Croatian**: `hr` * **Czech**: `cs` * **Danish**: `da`, `da-DK` * **Dutch**: `nl` * **English**: `en`, `en-US`, `en-AU`, `en-CA`, `en-GB`, `en-IE`, `en-IN`, `en-NZ` * **Estonian**: `et` * **Finnish**: `fi` * **Flemish**: `nl-BE` * **French**: `fr`, `fr-CA` * **German**: `de` * **German (Switzerland)**: `de-CH` * **Greek**: `el` * **Gujarati**: `gu`, `gu-IN` * **Hebrew**: `he` * **Hindi**: `hi`, `hi-Latn` * **Hungarian**: `hu` * **Indonesian**: `id` * **Italian**: `it` * **Japanese**: `ja` * **Kannada**: `kn` * **Korean**: `ko`, `ko-KR` * **Latvian**: `lv` * **Lithuanian**: `lt` * **Macedonian**: `mk` * **Malay**: `ms` * **Marathi**: `mr` * **Norwegian**: `no` * **Persian**: `fa` * **Polish**: `pl` * **Portuguese**: `pt`, `pt-BR`, `pt-PT` * **Romanian**: `ro` * **Russian**: `ru` * **Serbian**: `sr` * **Slovak**: `sk` * **Slovenian**: `sl` * **Spanish**: `es`, `es-419`, `es-LATAM` * **Swedish**: `sv`, `sv-SE` * **Tagalog**: `tl` * **Tamasheq**: `taq` * **Tamil**: `ta` * **Telugu**: `te` * **Thai**: `th`, `th-TH` * **Turkish**: `tr` * **Ukrainian**: `uk` * **Urdu**: `ur` * **Vietnamese**: `vi` > **Info** > > Profanity filtering is supported for all multilingual models: Nova-2 multi, Nova-3 multi, Nova-3 Medical multi, and Flux multi (`language=multi`). ## Enable Feature To enable Profanity Filtering, use the following parameter in the query string when you call Deepgram’s `/listen` endpoint : `profanity_filter=true` To transcribe audio from a file on your computer, run the following cURL command in a terminal or your favorite API client. **`cURL`** ```bash cURL curl \ --request POST \ --header 'Authorization: Token YOUR_DEEPGRAM_API_KEY' \ --header 'Content-Type: audio/wav' \ --data-binary @youraudio.wav \ --url 'https://api.deepgram.com/v1/listen?profanity_filter=true' ``` > **Warning** > > Replace `YOUR_DEEPGRAM_API_KEY` with your [Deepgram API Key](https://console.deepgram.com/signup?jump=keys). ## Results Filtered results will appear in the transcript as \*\*\*\* **`JSON`** ```json JSON { "metadata": { "transaction_key": "deprecated", "request_id": "9d5be02c-85a6-4e88-839e-474507583c70", "sha256": "36ee5ac2e476126b4a50bc192239ab73e5f9cdd496b0f27c516162447631a105", "created": "2024-12-14T00:07:25.012Z", "duration": 22.013313, "channels": 1, "models": [ "1abfe86b-e047-4eed-858a-35e5625b41ee" ], "model_info": { "1abfe86b-e047-4eed-858a-35e5625b41ee": { "name": "2-general-nova", "version": "2024-01-06.5664", "arch": "nova-2" } } }, "results": { "channels": [ { "alternatives": [ { "transcript": "it's a test of profanity filtering **** **** ******* **** you ******* **** *** **** you that's the end of the test", "confidence": 0.9854036, "words": [ { "word": "it's", "start": 1.92, "end": 2.1599998, "confidence": 0.94446576 }, { "word": "a", "start": 2.1599998, "end": 2.32, "confidence": 0.6431149 }, { "word": "test", "start": 2.32, "end": 2.72, "confidence": 0.9996898 }, { "word": "of", "start": 2.72, "end": 2.96, "confidence": 0.9829601 }, { "word": "profanity", "start": 2.96, "end": 3.46, "confidence": 0.99511766 }, { "word": "filtering", "start": 3.6799998, "end": 4.18, "confidence": 0.9920975 }, { "word": "****", "start": 5.12, "end": 5.62, "confidence": 0.9255334 }, { "word": "****", "start": 6.08, "end": 6.58, "confidence": 0.99655294 }, { "word": "*******", "start": 7.2, "end": 7.7, "confidence": 0.9951559 }, { "word": "****", "start": 8.32, "end": 8.82, "confidence": 0.627333 }, { "word": "you", "start": 9.5199995, "end": 10.0199995, "confidence": 0.67789125 }, { "word": "*******", "start": 11.068313, "end": 11.568313, "confidence": 0.96285325 }, { "word": "****", "start": 12.428312, "end": 12.928312, "confidence": 0.97373027 }, { "word": "***", "start": 18.028313, "end": 18.348312, "confidence": 0.8841204 }, { "word": "****", "start": 18.348312, "end": 18.668312, "confidence": 0.9854036 }, { "word": "you", "start": 18.668312, "end": 19.168312, "confidence": 0.9957408 }, { "word": "that's", "start": 19.94831, "end": 20.268312, "confidence": 0.9990535 }, { "word": "the", "start": 20.268312, "end": 20.348312, "confidence": 0.94378966 }, { "word": "end", "start": 20.348312, "end": 20.508312, "confidence": 0.9983961 }, { "word": "of", "start": 20.508312, "end": 20.668312, "confidence": 0.9802233 }, { "word": "the", "start": 20.668312, "end": 20.748312, "confidence": 0.9961033 }, { "word": "test", "start": 20.748312, "end": 21.248312, "confidence": 0.9991727 } ] } ] } ] } } ``` ---