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The Speech-to-Text API offers spoken punctuation and spoken emoji features. When
you enable this feature, instances of spoken punctuation and emojis detected in
your audio data will be replaced by the corresponding punctuation and emoji
symbols. For example, if you send a request with spoken punctuation enabled, the
transcript "how are you question mark" becomes "how are you?".
To enable the spoken punctuation and emoji features, set
enableSpokenPunctuation and enableSpokenEmojis to true in
RecognitionConfig.
Spoken punctuation is enabled by default for the command_and_search model, but
can be disabled using the enableSpokenPunctuation field. For all other
requests, spoken punctuation and spoken emoji are disabled by default.
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