Filler words | AssemblyAI

Supported languages

Global Englishen

Australian Englishen_au

British Englishen_uk

US Englishen_us

The following filler words are removed by default:

“um”
“uh”
“hmm”
“mhm”
“uh-huh”
“ah”
“huh”
“hm”
“m”

If you want to keep filler words in the transcript, you can set the disfluencies to true in the transcription config.

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