Profanity Filtering
Profanity Filter looks for recognized profanity and replaces it with asterisks.
profanity_filter boolean Default: false
Try this feature out in our API Playground!
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 \
--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'
Replace
YOUR_DEEPGRAM_API_KEYwith your Deepgram API Key.
Results
Filtered results will appear in the transcript as ****
{
"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
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
}
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