Profanity Filtering

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Universal-3-Prouniversal-3-pro
Universal-2universal-2

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You can automatically filter out profanity from the transcripts by setting filter_profanity to true in your transcription config.

Any profanity in the returned text will be replaced with asterisks.

1import assemblyai as aai
2
3aai.settings.api_key = "<YOUR_API_KEY>"
4
5# audio_file = "./local_file.mp3"
6audio_file = "https://assembly.ai/wildfires.mp3"
7
8config = aai.TranscriptionConfig(
9 speech_models=["universal-3-pro", "universal-2"],
10 language_detection=True,
11 filter_profanity=True
12)
13
14transcript = aai.Transcriber(config=config).transcribe(audio_file)
15
16if transcript.status == "error":
17 raise RuntimeError(f"Transcription failed: {transcript.error}")
18
19print(transcript.text)

Profanity filter isn’t perfect. Certain words may still be missed or improperly filtered.