Posted On: Oct 29, 2021

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications without any machine learning expertise. Starting today, Amazon Transcribe supports batch transcription in the AWS Stockholm and Cape Town Regions. 

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 can transcribe recorded calls for downstream analysis to better understand key call drivers. Content producers and media distributors can automatically generate transcriptions for subtitles to improve content accessibility. 

Amazon Transcribe batch transcription is now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), Africa (Cape Town), South America (São Paulo), AWS GovCloud (US-East), AWS GovCloud (US-West), the AWS China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD. For more information, please refer to the Amazon Transcribe documentation.