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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?".
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