Amazon Transcribe Service

2024/04/29 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   This update provides error messaging for generative call summarization in Transcribe Call Analytics

2023/11/27 - 4 new api methods

Changes   This release adds support for AWS HealthScribe APIs within Amazon Transcribe

2023/11/27 - 21 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for transcriptions from audio sources in 64 new languages and introduces generative call summarization in Transcribe Call Analytics (Post call)

2023/10/12 - 6 updated api methods

Changes   This release is to enable m4a format to customers

2023/07/20 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Added API argument --toxicity-detection to startTranscriptionJob API, which allows users to view toxicity scores of submitted audio.

2023/03/03 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Transcribe now supports role access for these API operations: CreateVocabulary, UpdateVocabulary, CreateVocabularyFilter, and UpdateVocabularyFilter.

2022/12/20 - 21 updated api methods

Changes   Enable our batch transcription jobs for Swedish and Vietnamese.

2022/12/05 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Transcribe now supports creating custom language models in the following languages: Japanese (ja-JP) and German (de-DE).

2022/11/28 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for 'inputType' for post-call and real-time (streaming) Call Analytics within Amazon Transcribe.

2022/05/31 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Transcribe now supports automatic language identification for multi-lingual audio in batch mode.

2022/03/24 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds an additional parameter for subtitling with Amazon Transcribe batch jobs: outputStartIndex.

2022/01/21 - 5 updated api methods

Changes   Add support for granular PIIEntityTypes when using Batch ContentRedaction.

2021/10/29 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   Transcribe and Transcribe Call Analytics now support automatic language identification along with custom vocabulary, vocabulary filter, custom language model and PII redaction.

2021/09/16 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for subtitling with Amazon Transcribe batch jobs.

2021/09/10 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds an API option for startTranscriptionJob and startMedicalTranscriptionJob that allows the user to specify encryption context key value pairs for batch jobs.

2021/08/26 - 21 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for batch transcription in six new languages - Afrikaans, Danish, Mandarin Chinese (Taiwan), New Zealand English, South African English, and Thai.

2021/08/24 - 3 new 8 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for feature tagging with Amazon Transcribe batch jobs.

2021/08/04 - 9 new 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for call analytics (batch) within Amazon Transcribe.

2021/05/14 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Transcribe Medical now supports identification of PHI entities within transcripts

2021/03/31 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Transcribe now supports creating custom language models in the following languages: British English (en-GB), Australian English (en-AU), Indian Hindi (hi-IN), and US Spanish (es-US).

2021/03/26 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Transcribe now supports tagging words that match your vocabulary filter for batch transcription.

2020/09/24 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Transcribe now supports WebM, OGG, AMR and AMR-WB as input formats. You can also specify an output key as a location within your S3 buckets to store the output of your transcription jobs.

2020/09/15 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Transcribe now supports automatic language identification, which enables you to transcribe audio files without needing to know the language in advance.

2020/08/05 - 4 new 18 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Transcribe now supports custom language models, which can improve transcription accuracy for your specific use case.

2020/04/29 - 5 new 3 updated api methods

Changes   With this release, you can now use Amazon Transcribe to create medical custom vocabularies and use them in both medical real-time streaming and medical batch transcription jobs.

2020/04/06 - 4 new api methods

Changes   This release adds support for batch transcription jobs within Amazon Transcribe Medical.

2020/02/26 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Transcribe's Automatic Content Redaction feature enables you to automatically redact sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) from transcription results. It replaces each instance of an identified PII utterance with a [PII] tag in the transcript.

2019/12/20 - 5 new 2 updated api methods

Changes   AWS Transcribe now supports vocabulary filtering that allows customers to input words to the service that they don't want to see in the output transcript.

2019/12/19 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Transcribe supports job queuing for the StartTranscriptionJob API.

2019/11/21 - 7 updated api methods

Changes   With this release, Amazon Transcribe now supports transcriptions from audio sources in Hebrew (he-IL), Swiss German (de-CH), Japanese (ja-JP), Turkish (tr-TR), Arabic-Gulf (ar-AE), Malay (ms-MY), Telugu (te-IN)

2019/11/20 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   With this release Amazon Transcribe enables alternative transcriptions so that you can see different interpretations of transcribed audio.

2019/11/12 - 7 updated api methods

Changes   With this release, Amazon Transcribe now supports transcriptions from audio sources in Welsh English (en-WL), Scottish English(en-AB), Irish English(en-IE), Farsi(fa-IR), Tamil(ta-IN), Indonesian(id-ID), Portuguese (pt-PT), Dutch(nl-NL).

2019/09/24 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   With this update Amazon Transcribe enables you to provide an AWS KMS key to encrypt your transcription output.

2019/08/23 - 7 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Transcribe - support transcriptions from audio sources in Russian (ru-RU) and Chinese (zh-CN).

2019/05/28 - 7 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Transcribe - support transcriptions from audio sources in Modern Standard Arabic (ar-SA).

2019/05/15 - 7 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Transcribe - support transcriptions from audio sources in Indian English (en-IN) and Hindi (hi-IN).

2019/04/19 - 7 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Transcribe - support transcriptions from audio sources in Spanish Spanish (es-ES).

2019/03/25 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Transcribe - With this release Amazon Transcribe enhances the custom vocabulary feature to improve accuracy by providing customization on pronunciations and output formatting.

2019/03/22 - 7 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Transcribe - support transcriptions from audio sources in German (de-DE) and Korean (ko-KR).

2018/12/20 - 7 updated api methods

Changes   With this release, Amazon Transcribe now supports transcriptions from audio sources in Italian (it-IT).

2018/11/16 - 7 updated api methods

Changes   With this release, Amazon Transcribe now publicly supports transcriptions from audio sources in British English (en-GB), Australian English (en-AU), and Canadian French (fr-CA). Amazon Transcribe now also supports the following languages in Private beta: Germany German (de-DE), Brazil Portuguese (pt-BR), France French (fr-FR).

2018/10/11 - 7 updated api methods

Changes   With this release, Amazon Transcribe now supports transcriptions from audio sources in British English (en-UK), Australian English (en-AU), and Canadian French (fr-CA).

2018/10/10 - 1 new api methods

Changes   With this update Amazon Transcribe now supports deleting completed transcription jobs.

2018/08/01 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   With this update Amazon Transcribe now supports channel identification. It transcribes audio from separate channels and combines them into a single transcription.

2018/07/09 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   You can now specify an Amazon S3 output bucket to store the transcription of your audio file when you call the StartTranscriptionJob operation.

2018/04/04 - 5 new 3 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech to text capability to their applications.

2018/01/19 - 3 new api methods

Changes   Amazon Transcribe Public Preview Release