Filler Words

The disfluencies parameter is supported on Universal-3 Pro and Universal-2. With Universal-3 Pro, you can also preserve filler words via prompting for finer-grained control — see Verbatim transcription and disfluencies.

Supported languages

Global Englishen

Australian Englishen_au

British Englishen_uk

US Englishen_us

Supported models

Universal-3 Prouniversal-3-pro

Universal-2universal-2

Supported regions

US & EU

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(
9     speech_models=["universal-3-pro", "universal-2"],
10     language_detection=True,
11     disfluencies=True
12 )
13 
14 transcript = aai.Transcriber(config=config).transcribe(audio_file)
15 
16 if transcript.status == "error":
17   raise RuntimeError(f"Transcription failed: {transcript.error}")
18 
19 print(transcript.text)

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(
9	speech_models=["universal-3-pro", "universal-2"],
10	language_detection=True,
11	disfluencies=True
12	)
13
14	transcript = aai.Transcriber(config=config).transcribe(audio_file)
15
16	if transcript.status == "error":
17	raise RuntimeError(f"Transcription failed: {transcript.error}")
18
19	print(transcript.text)