Create an Amazon Transcribe web app

I will walk you through the process of creating a full-stack Amazon Transcribe app.

What are we going to build?

We will build an app that facilitates a conversation between two people speaking different languages. The user can:

• Record their voice in English
• The app will transcribe the recording into text
• The text will be translated into Spanish
• The translated text will be displayed and read out loud

The contents of this series

This project is divided into these parts:

1. How to get AWS access keys
2. Create an Amazon Transcribe web app with JavaScript — purely front-end implementation using the client library in JavaScript
3. Create an Amazon Transcribe web app with AWS pre-signed URL — full-stack implementation using AWS sockets in NestJS
4. Create an Amazon Transcribe web app with NestJS — another take on a full-stack implementation using NestJS gateways

You will find the finished code in my repositories on GitHub which are divided into front-end and back-end.

The front-end will be a simple vanilla JavaScript just to illustrate how to communicate with the back-end. The back-end will be written in NestJS and it will use the Client Transcribe Streaming library from AWS.

Although the AWS Transcribe library is rather powerful, I couldn’t find any full-stack tutorials for it. So this article will help you to figure out all the ins and outs of streaming audio from the front-end to the back-end and then streaming it from the back-end to the AWS.

Let’s start!

The next part will be about getting your AWS access credentials ready. Read it here.

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