Amazon Transcribe is now available in the AWS US West (N. California) Region

Posted on: Jun 27, 2019

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Starting today, Amazon Transcribe becomes available in AWS US-West-1 Region.

Amazon Transcribe enables organizations to increase the accessibility and discoverability of their audio and video content, serving a breadth of use cases. For instance, contact centers may transcribe recorded calls for downstream analysis do better understand key call drivers. Or a media house may want to generate automatic transcriptions for the purpose of subtitling video. Amazon Transcribe is available in both batch mode and real-time (streaming), while supporting a variety of languages.

Amazon Transcribe is now available in the following AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Paris), EU (Frankfurt), US East (Northern Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), and GovCloud (US-West).

To learn more, visit the Amazon Transcribe documentation page.