Amazon Transcribe now supports speech-to-text in French, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese

Posted on: Dec 20, 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: French, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese. These languages expand upon the existing 5 languages already available in Amazon Transcribe: US English, US Spanish, Australian English, British English and Canadian French. 

French, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese 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.