Hi guys, am I understanding this
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Hi guys, am I understanding this correctly — if the voice formatting plan in Vapi is enabled by default, does that mean the recommendations in the prompting guide about explicitly adding formatting instructions to the prompt (like how to handle numbers, markdown, etc.) are no longer relevant?
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I'd say that's mostly right. You don't need to over-prompt/double prompt for basic TTS cleanup that's handled by the formatter The prompting guide is still relelvant though to help the model decide what kind of response to genenrate, when to confirm, spell somethng out, biz specific rules. also for reference in case you don't hacve them handy [Voice formatting plan](https://docs.vapi.ai/assistants/voice-formatting-plan) [AI prompting guide](https://docs.vapi.ai/prompting-guide) [email address reading](https://docs.vapi.ai/assistants/email-address-reading) - this goes into more specifics about what is handled on the vapi side