Introduction
Amazon Transcribe can be described as an automatic speech recognition service that helps developers add speech-to-text capability to their applications. Using this API, users can access audio files stored in Amazon S3. Users send a live audio stream to Amazon Transcribe and receive a stream of transcripts in real-time.
Amazon Transcribe has many typical applications, such as transcribing customer service calls and generating sub-titles for video content.
Features of Amazon Transcribe
The various key features of the Amazon Transcribe are as follows.
Transcription of Live Streaming
Using Amazon Transcribe helps users in transcribing audio to text in real-time. With the help of the HTTP 2 protocol, we can send a live audio stream and simultaneously receive a stream of text.
Identification of Channels
Amazon Transcribe can process audios and videos where each speaker can be recorded on different channels.
Recognition of Multiple Speakers
Multiple speakers can reduce the work needed to transcribe audios with telephone calls, meetings, and television shows.
Generation of Timestamps
Amazon Transcribe helps return a timestamp for each word so that users can quickly locate the audio in the original recording.