LEXI Live's Profanity Filters feature removes objectionable language from your broadcasts' captions. These filters replace unwelcome language with other text, (i.e. a more suitable word or nonsense such as *@K!@#$X), or remove it entirely. LEXI Live enables these filters by default. 

You can apply multiple filters to a single language, which allows you to tailor profanity filtering to specific content. This allows you to filter a questionable word or phrase in the context of a children's show or a sporting event, for example, but not in the context of a war documentary or late-night programming.

Please note, The Profanity Filters feature is supported by LEXI Live only.

Profanity Filters and Topic Models 

LEXI Live considers profanity filters a type of topic model. The LEXI Live – Topic Model user permissions extend to profanity filters. You can use the Profanity Filters Manager to add, edit, or delete filters, duplicate filters, and apply filters to LEXI Text instances.

Profanity filters take precedence over topic models when there are conflicting substitutions. That is, if you configured a topic model to replace a word, and create a profanity filter to replace the same word, only the profanity filter's substitution will have an effect.

Additional Documentation

• Viewing and Managing Profanity Filters
• How Do I Create an Access Code?

Before You Begin

You must have an EEG Cloud account to configure LEXI Live. If you do not have an account or an active LEXI Live subscription, contact the EEG sales team at sales@eegent.com or call 516-293-7472, option 2.

Creating A Profanity Filter

To create a profanity filter:

1. Sign in to EEG Cloud with your Cloud Services username and password.

2. Click LEXI Live, and then click Topic Models from the top toolbar, and then click Profanity Filters. The Profanity Filters manager opens with your current list of profanity filters displayed. This list is empty if you have no filters.
   

   

3. On the Profanity Filters Manager, Click Add New Filter.
4. On the Create a Profanity Filter window, enter a descriptive Filter Name (ex. Daytime Filter Test), select a Language, and then click Submit. The filter applies to the language you select on this screen.
5. On the Profanity List window, enter a word or phrase you consider profane and its substitution, and then click Add Profanity. Your new substitution displays in the Profanity List.
6. In the Profanity List, select whether this substitution is Case Sensitive, and use the pen icon to edit your substitution, or the backward arrow to undo your changes.

7. Click Save Changes.
   
    

   

8. At the top of the filter window, click Apply to Instance.
9. In the Apply Profanity Filter to Instances window, select the instances to apply this filter to, and click Submit. Your filter takes effect on those instances immediately.
   Note: You must apply your filter to at least one instance in order for the system to use it. Filters that are not applied to instances have no effect.

Applying Profanity Filters in the Instance Editor

You can apply profanity filters to instances through the instance configuration tools when you create or modify an instance. Follow these steps to use the Instance Editor to apply profanity filters: 

1. Sign in to EEG Cloud with your Cloud Services username and password, and then click LEXI Live.
2. If you are creating a new instance:
   1. Click Add New.
   2. On the Create A New LEXI Instance window, click Advanced Options.
3. If you are modifying an existing instance:
   1. Click the name of an instance in your LEXI Instances list.

   2. Click the ON/OFF selector to turn the instance OFF as shown in fig. 3, item 1.
       

      

   3. Click Settings as shown by item 2.
   4. On the Edit LEXI Instance window, click Advanced Options.

4. Scroll to Profanity Filter, which is toward the bottom of the left-hand column, and then select a filter to apply to this instance. Only filters that match the instance's language are available.

   

5. Click Submit, and then click the ON/OFF selector to turn your instance ON.