# Audio Moderation

## Overview

SafetyKit's audio moderation transcribes and analyzes audio content to detect hate speech, threats, and policy violations in voice recordings, podcasts, voice messages, and audio-only content. Our AI understands spoken language across dialects and accents to provide accurate moderation at scale.

### Key Capabilities

- **Automatic transcription:** High-accuracy speech-to-text across 193+ languages
- **Content analysis:** Policy violation detection on transcribed content
- **Voice activity detection:** Identify speech segments for processing

## Detection Capabilities

### Hate speech and slurs

### Threats and harassment

### Dangerous content

### Misinformation

### Copyright detection

## How It Works

### Audio Processing Pipeline

1. **Audio Ingestion:** Accept audio files or stream connections
2. **Voice Activity Detection:** Identify speech segments for processing
3. **Transcription:** Convert speech to text with high accuracy
4. **Content Analysis:** Apply policy detection to transcribed content
5. **Enforcement Decisions:** Makes enforcement decisions automatically with timestamps, with configurable thresholds for routing edge cases to human review

### Supported Formats

- Support for most audio formats
- Audio extracted from video files
- Real-time streaming audio

## Use Cases

### Voice messaging

### Podcasts and audio content

### Voice social features

### Call recording review

### Music platforms

### Enterprise communications

## Performance at Scale

SafetyKit's audio moderation combines speech recognition with purpose-built content analysis to achieve high accuracy across languages and audio quality levels.

### Performance

### Real-time

Moderation decisions

### 90%
Reduction in review time

### 75%
Increase in human reviewer accuracy

### Coverage

### 200+
Policies across 20 regions out of the box

### 100%
Audit and logging coverage

### 193+
Languages

### Agility

### <4 hrs
Deploy new policies

Zero engineering work for platform-specific rules

Audit, report, and investigate in minutes

## Related Capabilities

- [Text Moderation](/content/content-moderation-with-ai/text-moderation/index.html)
- [Image Moderation](/content/content-moderation-with-ai/image-moderation/index.html)
- [Video Moderation](/content/content-moderation-with-ai/video-moderation/index.html)
- [Live Stream Moderation](/content/content-moderation-with-ai/live-stream-moderation/index.html)