diff --git a/lib/tasks/gather.js b/lib/tasks/gather.js
index 85a9fc29..2bd67abe 100644
--- a/lib/tasks/gather.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/gather.js
@@ -351,7 +351,8 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
     /* some special deepgram logic */
     if (this.vendor === 'deepgram') {
       if (this.isContinuousAsr) this._doContinuousAsrWithDeepgram(this.asrTimeout);
-      if (this.data.recognizer?.deepgramOptions?.shortUtterance) this.shortUtterance = true;
+      if (this.data.recognizer?.deepgramOptions?.shortUtterance ||
+        this.data.recognizer?.deepgramOptions?.endpointing === false) this.shortUtterance = true;
     }
 
     const opts = this.setChannelVarsForStt(this, this.sttCredentials, this.language, this.data.recognizer);
diff --git a/lib/utils/transcription-utils.js b/lib/utils/transcription-utils.js
index e83aa99f..5889775c 100644
--- a/lib/utils/transcription-utils.js
+++ b/lib/utils/transcription-utils.js
@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ module.exports = (logger) => {
         ...('endpointing' in deepgramOptions) &&
           {DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_ENDPOINTING: deepgramOptions.endpointing === false ? 'false' : deepgramOptions.endpointing,
             // default DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_UTTERANCE_END_MS is 1000, will be override by user settings later if there is.
-            DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_UTTERANCE_END_MS: 1000},
+            DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_UTTERANCE_END_MS: deepgramOptions.endpointing === false ? null : 1000},
         ...(deepgramOptions.utteranceEndMs) &&
           {DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_UTTERANCE_END_MS: deepgramOptions.utteranceEndMs},
         ...(deepgramOptions.vadTurnoff) &&