Zero-based index indicating the start of the segment, measured in bytes of a UTF-8 string (i.e. characters encoded on multiple bytes have a length of more than one).
↳ end_index
int|string
End of the segment, exclusive.
↳ reference_indices
array
References for the segment.
↳ grounding_score
float
Score for the segment.
↳ text
string
The text segment itself.
getStartIndex
Zero-based index indicating the start of the segment, measured in bytes
of a UTF-8 string (i.e. characters encoded on multiple bytes have a
length of more than one).
Returns
Type
Description
int|string
setStartIndex
Zero-based index indicating the start of the segment, measured in bytes
of a UTF-8 string (i.e. characters encoded on multiple bytes have a
length of more than one).
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