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Rewrites the Language hints sections on the realtime and batch input pages. Both pages said hints guide detection without restricting it, but language labels are actually limited to the hinted languages. That is by design, as confirmed in DEL-37132. The wording is Daniel Cochrane's suggestion from the ticket

Georgios Hadjiharalambous and others added 2 commits November 11, 2026 18:08
DEL-37132 reported that with language_hints [nl, fr], English and German
speech was labelled nl. This is by design: hints restrict which languages
can appear as labels, not just bias toward them. The page said the
opposite ("guide detection without restricting it", "can still detect
and label a language you did not hint"), so rewrite the section using the
wording Daniel Cochrane proposed on the ticket.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Same fix as the realtime page: hints restrict labels to the hinted
languages in batch too, but the page said they guide detection without
restricting it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Per clarification on DEL-37132: hints structurally prevent unhinted
languages from appearing as labels, but only bias transcription, so
speech in an unhinted language can still be transcribed (labelled as a
hinted language). The previous wording could be read as hints removing
unhinted speech entirely.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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