Category: Amazon Transcribe

Have you ever wished that people visiting your home could leave you a message if you’re not there? What if that solution could support your native language? Here is a straightforward and cost-effective solution that you can build yourself, and you only pay for what you use. This post demonstrates how to build a notification […]

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 […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Veeva Systems is a provider of cloud-based software for the global life sciences industry, which offers products that serve multiple domains ranging from clinical, regulatory, quality, and more. Veeva’s Vault Platform manages both content and data in a single platform […]

December 2020 Update – This blog post now also covers how the Medical Transcription Analysis can also be used to store and retrieve medical transcriptions and relevant information using Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3 and how all of this data can be analyzed using Amazon Athena. The healthcare industry is a highly regulated and complex […]

We are excited to announce Amazon Transcribe Medical, a new HIPAA-eligible, machine learning automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that allows developers to add medical speech-to-text capabilities to their applications. Transcribe Medical provides accurate and affordable medical transcription, enabling healthcare providers, IT vendors, insurers, and pharmaceutical companies to build services that help physicians, nurses, researchers, and […]

We recently announced that Amazon Transcribe now supports transcription for audio and video for 7 additional languages including Gulf Arabic, Swiss German, Hebrew, Japanese, Malay, Telugu, and Turkish languages.  Using Amazon Transcribe, customers can now take advantage of 31 supported languages for transcription use cases such as improving customer service, captioning and subtitling, meeting accessibility requirements, and cataloging audio […]

This is a guest post from Graham Pengelly, CTO, and James Jameson, the Commercial Lead, at CaptionHub. CaptionHub is a London-based company that focuses on video captioning and subtitling production for enterprise organizations. While the act of captioning—that is, taking video files and making sure the text on the screen reflects what’s being said accurately […]

October 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capability to applications. In November 2018, we added streaming transcriptions over HTTP/2 to Amazon Transcribe. This enabled users to pass a live audio stream to the service […]

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 […]

Swedish startup Newstag uses artificial intelligence (AI) to allow customers to create personalized video news channels from major global news providers. Their mission is to continuously empower people and organizations with the latest, diverse information. To increase discoverability of video news from all around the world for their customers, Newstag creates rich metadata for each […]