Amazon Transcribe

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition service that uses machine learning models to convert audio to text. You can use Amazon Transcribe as a standalone transcription service or to add speech-to-text capabilities to any application.

With Amazon Transcribe, you can improve accuracy for your specific use case with language customization, filter content to ensure customer privacy or audience-appropriate language, analyze content in multi-channel audio, partition the speech of individual speakers, and more.

You can transcribe media in real time (streaming) or you can transcribe media files located in an Amazon S3 bucket (batch). To see which languages are supported for each type of transcription, refer to the

Supported languages and language-specific features⁠

table.

Transcription methods can be separated into two main categories:

Batch transcriptions: Transcribe media files that have been uploaded into an Amazon S3 bucket. You can use the

AWS CLI⁠

AWS Management Console⁠

, and various

AWS SDKs⁠

for batch transcriptions.

Streaming transcriptions: Transcribe media streams in real time. You can use the

AWS Management Console⁠

HTTP/2⁠

WebSockets⁠

, and various

AWS SDKs⁠

for streaming transcriptions.

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