Amazon Transcribe Getting Started
AWS Skill Builder
Last updated June 5, 2024
Amazon Transcribe Getting Started is a free, 90-minute introduction to Amazon Transcribe, AWS's managed service for converting speech to text using automatic speech recognition (ASR). It opens with the service essentials — how it works, its basic concepts, benefits, typical use cases, and cost — and reviews a reference architecture for a transcription solution. The substance is hands-on: through a guided tutorial of narrated video, step-by-step instructions, and transcripts, you try the service three ways in your own AWS account — generating a real-time transcription as audio streams in, running a batch transcription over stored audio, and improving accuracy with a custom vocabulary that teaches the service the words and names specific to your domain.
What you'll learn
- What Transcribe is and how ASR converts speech to text
- Concepts, benefits, use cases
- Solution architecture + cost
- Real-time transcription in the console
- Batch transcription over stored audio
- Custom vocabulary to improve accuracy
Frequently asked questions about Amazon Transcribe Getting Started
Who is Amazon Transcribe Getting Started for?
Beginners who want a hands-on first look at converting speech to text with a managed ASR service, using Amazon Transcribe.
Is Amazon Transcribe Getting Started free?
Yes — Amazon Transcribe Getting Started is completely free to take.
What are the prerequisites for Amazon Transcribe Getting Started?
AWS Technical Essentials recommended; an AWS account is needed to follow the hands-on transcriptions.
Why we suggest this course
It pairs the concepts of speech-to-text with a guided, hands-on session where you actually produce transcriptions three ways — real-time, batch, and with a custom vocabulary — which is where the differences between them become clear. One thing to know: this is an introduction to a single AWS service, so it is vendor-specific by design — you are learning Amazon Transcribe in particular, not speech recognition in general, though the distinction between real-time and batch transcription carries across other tools.