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Speech to Text with Amazon Transcribe

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: 2 minutes and 13 seconds
Students: 21

In this lesson, I will introduce Amazon Transcribe, a fully managed automated speech recognition service provided by AWS. Amazon Transcribe uses deep learning models to convert audio and video files, streaming audio, and even live speech to text. 

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you’ll have a greater understanding of:

  • What Amazon Transcribe is, along with its key features;

  • The various use cases for Amazon Transcribe and their associated benefits; and

  • How to use Amazon Transcribe to perform transcription tasks.

Intended Audience

  • Anyone who wants to make their audio data searchable and improve its accessibility by converting it into text, as well as anyone who is looking to incorporate speech-to-text capabilities within their workflows and applications.

Prerequisites

  • To get the most out of this lesson, you should have a basic understanding of AWS services such as S3. It may also be helpful to have some familiarity with audio file formats such as FLAC, Ogg, and WAV.