Dictation feature does not work when punctuation characters are spoken after a pause
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What is the current behavior?
When the punctuation characters are spoken after the brief pause, deepgram doesn't return any results back. Eg.:
If I state...
"The patient presents today complaining of a headache {period}"
The service correctly returns...
"The patient presents today complaining of a headache."
However if I say...
"The patient presents today complaining of a headache"
Wait for that text to return and then say...
"Period"
I receive a result from the service, but the text is empty, the confidence is 0. This is the behaviour for all the punctuation characters like comma, colon, question mark, etc.
Steps to reproduce
Enable punctuate and dictation settings in the SDK and try to generate the above provided example speech.
Expected behavior
Even after the pause, deepgram should recognise punctuation characters.
Please tell us about your environment
- Operating System/Version: MacOS 14.5
- Python Version: v3.12.3
Other information
Related discord thread:
Hi @rpriyanshu9
I believe if you have punctuate and dictation enabled, that is the expected behavior. If you want to verbally provide the punctuation, then you need to set punctuate to false (or omit declaring it which is equal to false). If that doesn't give you what you are anticipating, I can forward this to the engineering team with the feedback.
Depending on your use case, you might want to try using the conversationalai model.
If you are doing medical-related work (as your examples might suggest), we have a medical model. However, I believe it requires moving into a growth plan (meaning you need to talk to a sales rep).
If you want to discuss further or to flush out a proposal for a desired behavior that I can take to engineering, I would be happy to discuss in Discord. Here is the link to join:
https://dpgr.am/discord
Drop me a DM.