Remove punctuation

hugvey/speech/google.py

@@ -20,10 +20,13 @@ from hugvey.communication import LOG_BS
 import audioop
 import gc
 import time
+import string
 
 mainLogger = logging.getLogger("hugvey")
 logger = mainLogger.getChild("google")
 
+punctuationTranslation = str.maketrans('','',string.punctuation)
+
 class RequireRestart(Exception):
     pass
 
@@ -176,6 +179,13 @@ class GoogleVoiceClient(object):
                         self.logger.info(f"Text: {transcript}")
                         self.lastNonFinalTranscript = None
                         
+#                     if any(p in transcript for p in string.punctuation):
+#                         self.logger.warning(f"Google returned punctuation in the string. It is removed: {transcript}")
+
+                    # remove any possible punctuation from string. As google has sometimes
+                    # given results _with_ punctuation, even though it should not?
+                    transcript = transcript.translate(punctuationTranslation)
+
                     if result.is_final:
                         self.logger.info("native final")
                     msg = {