Use GetVocabulary with an AWS SDK or command line tool

The following code examples show how to use GetVocabulary.

Action examples are code excerpts from larger programs and must be run in context. You can see this action in context in the following code example:

• Create and refine a custom vocabulary

.NET

AWS SDK for .NET

Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the AWS Code Examples Repository.

    /// <summary>
    /// Get information about a custom vocabulary.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="vocabularyName">Name of the vocabulary.</param>
    /// <returns>The state of the custom vocabulary.</returns>
    public async Task<VocabularyState> GetCustomVocabulary(string vocabularyName)
    {
        var response = await _amazonTranscribeService.GetVocabularyAsync(
            new GetVocabularyRequest()
            {
                VocabularyName = vocabularyName
            });
        return response.VocabularyState;
    }

• For API details, see GetVocabulary in AWS SDK for .NET API Reference.

CLI

AWS CLI

To get information about a custom vocabulary

The following get-vocabulary example gets information on a previously created custom vocabulary.

aws transcribe get-vocabulary \
    --vocabulary-name cli-vocab-1

Output:

{
    "VocabularyName": "cli-vocab-1",
    "LanguageCode": "language-code",
    "VocabularyState": "READY",
    "LastModifiedTime": "2020-09-19T23:22:32.836000+00:00",
    "DownloadUri": "https://link-to-download-the-text-file-used-to-create-your-custom-vocabulary"
}

For more information, see Custom Vocabularies in the Amazon Transcribe Developer Guide.

• For API details, see GetVocabulary in AWS CLI Command Reference.

Python

SDK for Python (Boto3)

Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the AWS Code Examples Repository.

def get_vocabulary(vocabulary_name, transcribe_client):
    """
    Gets information about a custom vocabulary.

    :param vocabulary_name: The name of the vocabulary to retrieve.
    :param transcribe_client: The Boto3 Transcribe client.
    :return: Information about the vocabulary.
    """
    try:
        response = transcribe_client.get_vocabulary(VocabularyName=vocabulary_name)
        logger.info("Got vocabulary %s.", response["VocabularyName"])
    except ClientError:
        logger.exception("Couldn't get vocabulary %s.", vocabulary_name)
        raise
    else:
        return response

• For API details, see GetVocabulary in AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) API Reference.