Voice Assistant Preview Edition LOVES "Asterisks"

Basically, when I ask for certain responses from Preview Edition it verbally says “asterisk” for every bulletpoint. An example in the short (1 minute) video that I uploaded to Youtube. Here in this specific example, I have it set up to describe certain alerts from my cameras. Such as in this example I drive up the driveway and park my car. Pretty simple. Basically, I have LLM Vision set up to analyze a video with Gemini (does it with ChatGPT also) and the prompt is set as follows:
“Briefly describe the vehicle in the video, what it’s doing and it’s occupant if they are visible. If there is a license plate number available, please detect it and include that in the response.”
Then it announces on Preview Edition.
But it audibly includes the “asterisks” in the description of the video. It’s comically annoying.
Any ideas on how to fix that?
https://youtu.be/5msnfk7IxfI

I haven’t perfected it with the LLM I’m using, but I’ve been trying different ways of telling the AI prompt to ‘only use plain-text suitable for text-to-speech’ and it works about 2/3 of the time.

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