Author: Paul Zhao

Amazon Transcribe is a fully-managed automatic speech recognition service (ASR) that makes it easy to add speech-to-text capabilities to voice-enabled applications. As our service grows, so does the diversity of our customer base, which now spans domains such as insurance, finance, law, real estate, media, hospitality, and more. Naturally, customers in different market segments have […]

As the world responds to the ongoing pandemic, it’s more important than ever to accurately access, consume, and analyze information related to COVID-19. Topics about the healthcare crisis permeate many dimensions of our personal and professional lives, through channels as diverse as news reporting, social media, business meetings, radio and podcasts, customer support calls, and […]

Amazon Transcribe is a fully-managed automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capabilities to applications. Depending on your use case, you may have domain-specific terminology that doesn’t transcribe properly (e.g. “EBITDA” or “myocardial infarction”). In this post, we will show you how to leverage the custom vocabulary feature […]

We’re excited to announce that Amazon Transcribe now supports automatic speech recognition in three new languages: French, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese. These new languages expand upon the 5 languages already available in Amazon Transcribe: US English, US Spanish, Australian English, British English, and Canadian French. Using the Amazon Transcribe API, you can analyze audio files […]

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capability to applications. We’re excited to announce a new feature called Streaming Transcription, which enables users to pass a live audio stream to our service and receive text transcripts in real time. Real-time transcriptions benefit use cases […]

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capability to applications. We’re excited to announce the availability of a new feature called channel identification, which allows users to process multi-channel audio files and retrieve a single transcript annotated with respective channel labels.