# December 16, 2024

## Enhanced Profanity Filtering System

### What's New

The profanity filtering system (`profanity_filter=true`) now includes:

- An expanded database of profane words and phrases
- Real-time filtering support for streaming audio
- Standardized asterisk replacement for filtered content

Note: Profanity Filtering is available for English-only.

### Key Changes

Previously, our system would replace detected profanity with similar-sounding words. With this update, all identified profane content is now consistently replaced with asterisks, providing clearer and more predictable output.

### Documentation & Support

- See our [Profanity Filter documentation ](/guides/self-hosted-deployments-6-detect-entities)to learn more.
- For Self-Hosted customers, please reach out to your Deepgram contact if you'd like to use the updated feature.

## Related pages

- [Amazon SageMaker](./amazon-sagemaker-index.md)
- [Aura](./aura-index.md)
- [Changelog](../changelog.md)
- [Custom Vocabulary](./custom-vocabulary-index.md)
- [Deepgram's Docs](../index.md)
- [Deployment](./deployment-index.md)
- [Docker/Podman](./docker-podman-index.md)
- [Features](./features-index.md)
- [Flux TTS](./flux-tts-index.md)
- [Formatting](./formatting-index.md)

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