Subtitles

Generate subtitles for your media file with your transcription request.

You can choose a start index of 0 or 1, and you can specify either WebVTT or SubRip (or both) as your output format.

Note that your subtitle files are placed in the same location as your transcription output.

Contents

Formats

Specify the output format for your subtitle file; if you select both WebVTT (vtt) and SubRip (srt) formats, two output files are generated.

Type: Array of strings

Valid Values: vtt | srt

Required: No

OutputStartIndex

Specify the starting value that is assigned to the first subtitle segment.

The default start index for Amazon Transcribe is 0, which differs from the more widely used standard of 1. If you're uncertain which value to use, we recommend choosing 1, as this may improve compatibility with other services.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 1.

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Java V2

• AWS SDK for Ruby V3