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Glossary: Speech and Audio AI

Prompt and keyword hints

Also written: initial_prompt, prompt, keywords, hotwords, languages

Extra input that steers a transcription model toward your vocabulary: Whisper's `initial_prompt` and `hotwords`, and the hosted API's `prompt`, `keywords` and `languages`. Keep them short and factual; they are not instructions.

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