A Five Minute Overview of AWS Transcribe

Chris Hare
Nov 5 · 9 min read

In a previous article, I discussed using AWS Polly to take my article text and convert it to speech. AWS Transcribe is a speech to text service, allowing users to create a text transcription of an audio recording. The service is capable of detecting different voices in the conversation and adding time stamps. In this article, we are going to look at what AWS Transcribe does, how we can use it, and a sample implementation.

What is AWS Transcribe?

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