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# DictationTranscriber.ContentHint

Expected characteristics of the spoken audio content and its delivery.

```
struct ContentHint
```

## Overview

These hints optimize transcription, but do not preclude spoken audio with different characteristics.

## Topics

### Content hints

[`static let shortForm: DictationTranscriber.ContentHint`](/documentation/Speech/DictationTranscriber/ContentHint/shortForm)

A processing hint indicating that the audio is only expected to be a minute or so long.

[`static let farField: DictationTranscriber.ContentHint`](/documentation/Speech/DictationTranscriber/ContentHint/farField)

A processing hint indicating that the audio should be processed as if it were from a speaker far from the microphone.

[`static func customizedLanguage(modelConfiguration: SFSpeechLanguageModel.Configuration) -> DictationTranscriber.ContentHint`](/documentation/Speech/DictationTranscriber/ContentHint/customizedLanguage(modelConfiguration:))

A hint specifying a custom language model applicable to the expected spoken audio content.

[`static let atypicalSpeech: DictationTranscriber.ContentHint`](/documentation/Speech/DictationTranscriber/ContentHint/atypicalSpeech)

A processing hint indicating that the audio is from a speaker with a heavy accent, lisp, or other confounding factor.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`Sendable`](/documentation/Swift/Sendable)

[`SendableMetatype`](/documentation/Swift/SendableMetatype)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

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