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Clarify that language hints restrict labels, not just bias - #349

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The Batch and Realtime input pages, and the Realtime API spec, said language hints bias detection "without restricting it" and that the model can still label languages you did not hint. That is wrong for Melia 1 and Oak 1: language labels are structurally restricted to the hinted set, so hinting ["nl", "fr"] means German or English speech is labelled nl or fr (rejected as by-design).

Hints also bias transcription toward the hinted languages, which reduces but does not eliminate output in other languages. The pages now describe both effects separately.

The Batch and Realtime input pages, and the Realtime API spec, said
language hints bias detection "without restricting it" and that the model
can still label languages you did not hint. That is wrong for Melia 1 and
Oak 1: language labels are structurally restricted to the hinted set, so
hinting ["nl", "fr"] means German or English speech is labelled nl or fr
(DEL-37132, rejected as by-design).

Hints also bias transcription toward the hinted languages, which reduces
but does not eliminate output in other languages. The pages now describe
both effects separately, based on Daniel Cochrane's suggested wording on
the ticket, and add a note to omit hints when the audio's languages can't
be predicted. The Batch section also now mentions Oak 1 alongside Melia 1.

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