diff --git a/src/lib/types/LiveTranscriptionEvent.ts b/src/lib/types/LiveTranscriptionEvent.ts
index 31d07ac7..c4f5e534 100644
--- a/src/lib/types/LiveTranscriptionEvent.ts
+++ b/src/lib/types/LiveTranscriptionEvent.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ export interface LiveTranscriptionEvent {
   channel: {
     alternatives: {
       transcript: string;
-      confidence: boolean;
+      confidence: number;
       words: {
         word: string;
         start: number;
diff --git a/src/lib/types/SyncPrerecordedResponse.ts b/src/lib/types/SyncPrerecordedResponse.ts
index be53c667..81d0a6cc 100644
--- a/src/lib/types/SyncPrerecordedResponse.ts
+++ b/src/lib/types/SyncPrerecordedResponse.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ interface Channel {
   search?: Search[];
   alternatives: Alternative[];
   detected_language?: string;
+  language_confidence?: number;
 }
 
 interface Entity {
diff --git a/src/packages/LiveClient.ts b/src/packages/LiveClient.ts
index ebc1e861..2522e4f1 100644
--- a/src/packages/LiveClient.ts
+++ b/src/packages/LiveClient.ts
@@ -35,17 +35,6 @@ export class LiveClient extends AbstractWsClient {
     };
 
     this._socket.onclose = (event: any) => {
-      /**
-       * changing the event.target to any to access the private _req
-       * property that isn't available on the WebSocket.CloseEvent type
-       **/
-      const newTarget: any = event.target;
-
-      if (newTarget["_req"]) {
-        const dgErrorIndex = newTarget["_req"].res.rawHeaders.indexOf("dg-error");
-        event.reason = newTarget["_req"].res.rawHeaders[dgErrorIndex + 1];
-      }
-
       this.emit(LiveTranscriptionEvents.Close, event);
     };