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Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition service that makes it easy to add speech to text capabilities to any application. Transcribe’s features enable you to ingest audio input, produce easy to read and review transcripts, improve accuracy with customization, and filter content to ensure customer privacy.
Audio inputs
Transcribe is designed to process live and recorded audio or video input to provide high quality transcriptions for search and analysis. We also offer separate APIs that uniquely understand customer calls and medical conversations.
Streaming & batch transcription
You can process your existing audio recordings or stream the audio for real-time transcription. Using a secure connection, you can send a live audio stream to the service, and receive a stream of text in response.
Domain specific models
Select a model that is tuned to telephone calls or multimedia video content. For example, Transcribe adapts to low-fidelity phone audio common in contact centers.
Easy to read transcripts
Amazon Transcribe enables you produce accurate transcripts that are easy to read, review, and integrate into your specific applications. We work to make the output ready for downstream activities such as call transcript analysis, subtitling, and content search.
Punctuation & number normalization
Amazon Transcribe automatically adds punctuation and number formatting, so that the output closely matches the quality of manual transcription at a fraction of the time and expense. Numbers are also transcribed into digits or “normal form” instead of words.
Timestamp generation
Amazon Transcribe returns a timestamp for each word, so that you can easily find a word or phrase in the original recording or add subtitles to video.
Recognize multiple speakers
Speaker changes are automatically recognized and attributed in the text to capture scenarios like telephone calls, meetings, and television shows accurately. To learn more about speaker identification.
Channel identification
Contact centers can submit a single audio file to Amazon Transcribe, and the service will identify produce a single transcript annotated by channel labels automatically.
Customize your output
Accuracy is critical and we provide you many options to customize transcripts to your specific business needs and vernacular. Transcribe also provides up to 10 alternative transcriptions for each sentence, so you can quickly choose the best option that applies to your content and domain. This is useful for human in-the-loop subtitling workflows.
Custom vocabulary
With custom vocabulary, you can add new words to the base vocabulary to generate more accurate transcriptions for domain-specific words and phrases like product names, technical terminology, or names of individuals.
Vocabulary filtering
You can specify a list of words to remove from transcripts with vocabulary filtering. For example, you can pecify a list of profane or offensive words and Amazon Transcribe removes them from transcripts automatically.
Data Protection
Secure data at rest using Amazon S3 key (SSE-S3) or specify your own Amazon Key Management Service key. Amazon Transcribe uses TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.2, a cryptographic protocol that enables authenticated connections and secure data transport over the internet via HTTP, with Amazon Web Services certificates to encrypt data in transit. This includes streaming transcriptions.
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