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With Google Cloud Speech-to-Text's profanity filter on, the transcript keeps only the first letter of a profane word and replaces the rest with asterisks, for example f***.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“return only the first letter followed by asterisks in the transcript”
Enable profanity filtering (Speech-to-Text), Google Cloud documentation, n.d., Introduction.
Open the original- What it measures
- The example given on the page is f***.
- What it does not show
- Describes Google's cloud service. Masking style differs from Azure, which replaces the whole word.