diff --git a/deepgram/clients/listen/v1/websocket/options.py b/deepgram/clients/listen/v1/websocket/options.py
index abebc924..667605dc 100644
--- a/deepgram/clients/listen/v1/websocket/options.py
+++ b/deepgram/clients/listen/v1/websocket/options.py
@@ -41,9 +41,15 @@ class LiveOptions(DataClassJsonMixin):  # pylint: disable=too-many-instance-attr
     encoding: Optional[str] = field(
         default=None, metadata=dataclass_config(exclude=lambda f: f is None)
     )
-    endpointing: Optional[str] = field(
+    # pylint: disable=W0511
+    # TODO: endpointing's current type previous was `Optional[str]` which is incorrect
+    # for backward compatibility we are keeping it as `Optional[Union[str, bool, int]]`
+    # since it gets translated to a string to be placed as a query parameter, will keep `str` for now
+    # but will change this to `Optional[Union[bool, int]]` in a future release
+    endpointing: Optional[Union[str, bool, int]] = field(
         default=None, metadata=dataclass_config(exclude=lambda f: f is None)
     )
+    # pylint: enable=W0511
     extra: Optional[Union[List[str], str]] = field(
         default=None, metadata=dataclass_config(exclude=lambda f: f is None)
     )