print(ds.stt(audio)) UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode characters in position 558-559: surrogates not allowed

[dindaya]

Hi I am using deepspeech trained models "deepspeech-0.9.3-models-zh-CN.pbmm" and "deepspeech-0.9.3-models-zh-CN.scorer" for Mandarin inference in Ubuntu 18.04. It is working but for some audio files it is giving below error.

Error:
"print(ds.stt(audio))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode characters in position 558-559: surrogates not allowed"

I am not able to correct this error, any support will be helpful.

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Naval

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[iris]

so how to fix it? I can't find any questions identical to this one. I come to this problem when performing the inference.