Official documentation
Enable profanity filtering (Speech-to-Text)
Google Cloud documentation, n.d.
Read the originalRead on October 16, 2026
- What it is
- Google Cloud's guide to the Speech-to-Text profanity filter, which masks profane words in transcripts when turned on.
- How much weight it carries
- Official vendor documentation, read on the accessed date. Describes the cloud API only. Field names differ between API versions, so check the version you use.
Facts taken from this source
- In Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, the profanity filter does not run unless the profanityFilter setting is true.
“If this field is set to false or not set, Cloud Speech-to-Text will not attempt to filter profanities” (Introduction)
- 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***.
“return only the first letter followed by asterisks in the transcript” (Introduction)