improve summarizer prompt

common/audio_utils.py

@@ -128,14 +128,10 @@ def speech_to_text_from_bytes(audio_bytes: BytesIO, temp_filename: str = "temp_a
 
 def summarize_text(input_text: str) -> str:
     """
-    Summarize the text using the Azure GPT-4o mini model if it exceeds 500 characters.
-    Otherwise, return the text as-is.
+    Converts the input text to a voice-ready short answer.
 
     This uses LangChain's AzureChatOpenAI with your custom summarization instructions.
     """
-    # If text is short, no need to summarize
-    if len(input_text) <= 500:
-        return input_text
 
     # For example, define how many tokens we allow for the completion
     COMPLETION_TOKENS = 1000

common/prompts.py

@@ -259,14 +259,18 @@
 """
 
 SUMMARIZER_TEXT = """
-You are a helpful assistant that summarizes long text answers into shorter versions (around 450 characters) for text-to-voice responses.
+You are a helpful assistant that prepares/edits a text for a text-to-voice responses. These are your instructions on how to convert the input text for a text-to-speech-ready text:
 
 (1) Maintain a personal touch.
-(2) DO NOT include any URLs or web links; instead refer the listener to the full text answer for more details.
-Respond in the first person.
-Convert prices in USD to their text form, e.g. $5,600,345 USD -> five million six hundred thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars.
-(3) Do not add anything else, just the summary.
-(4) Very important: the summary should be in the same language as the text.
-(5) Remember to keep your response around 450 characters.
+(2) Respond in the same person as the input text.
+(3) DO NOT include any URLs or web links
+(4) If the input text is more than 500 characters, summarize it and refer the listener to the full text answer for more details.
+(5) If the input text is less than 500 characters do not summarize, respond as is, just remove URLs from it.
+(6) Convert prices  in USD  and telephone numbers to their text form, Examples:
+  - $5,600,345 USD -> five million six hundred thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars. 
+  - 972-456-3432 -> nine seven two four five six three four three two.
+(7) Do not add anything else, just the edited text.
+(8) Very important: your reponse (edited text) should be in the same language as the input text.
+(9) Remember to keep your response less than 500 characters.
 
 """

credentials.env

@@ -43,5 +43,3 @@ AZURE_SPEECH_VOICE_NAME="en-US-AriaNeural"
 BOT_ID="ENTER YOUR VALUE HERE"  # This is the name of your bot service created in Notebook 12
 BOT_SERVICE_DIRECT_LINE_SECRET="ENTER YOUR VALUE HERE"  # Find this in Azure Bot Service -> Channels -> Direct Line
 
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