Posted On: Nov 15, 2018
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add a speech-to-text capability to your applications. Amazon Transcribe now supports transcription of audio in the following new languages: British English, Australian English, and Canadian French. These languages expand upon the existing two languages already available in Amazon Transcribe: US English and US Spanish.
The new set of languages expands the markets served by Amazon Transcribe to enable use cases in contact centers, media and entertainment, education, among others, to reach a broader global audience. For example, you can now use the service to create transcripts of movies in British English.
British English, Australian English, and Canadian French are available in all AWS Regions that Amazon Transcribe is available at no additional cost. Try the new set of languages through the Amazon Transcribe console, or visit the use the Command Line Interface (CLI) and AWS SDKs. For more information, visit this documentation page.