Document history for Amazon Transcribe - Amazon Transcribe

Document history for Amazon Transcribe

  • Latest documentation update: 13 November 2023

The following table describes important changes in each release of Amazon Transcribe. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.

ChangeDescriptionDate

Section Update

Extend Transcribe Batch json output with new field called "audio_segments".

July 15, 2024

Feature Update

Update Max Speakers in diarization to be 30 instead of 10.

May 10, 2024

Section Update

Updates to generative call summarization and add error output details.

April 30, 2024

Section Update

Updates on custom vocabulary columns - IPA and SoundsLike.

April 30, 2024

Feature Update

Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics now supports generative call summarization.

November 29, 2023

Section Update

Update new PII redaction and Language Identification output format.

November 13, 2023

Feature Update

Diarization can now be combined with channel identification.

March 6, 2023

Feature Update

Channel identification can now be combined with diarization.

March 6, 2023

Section Update

IAM best practices have been updated.

February 13, 2023

New languages

Amazon Transcribe now supports Vietnamese and Swedish.

December 6, 2022

New feature

Amazon Transcribe now supports real-time Call Analytics.

November 28, 2022

Feature Update

Streaming redaction and identification is now available with Hindi and Thai.

November 11, 2022

Section Update

New PII categories are available for streaming redaction and identification.

September 14, 2022

Section Update

The custom language model section has been revised.

June 18, 2022

Section Update

Batch language identification can now identify multiple languages per audio file.

May 31, 2022

Guide Update

The Amazon Transcribe API Reference is now a standalone guide.

April 1, 2022

New chapter

A new comparison table for Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Transcribe Medical, and Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics is included.

March 21, 2022

New chapter

A new SDK code examples chapter is included.

March 21, 2022

Feature update

Call Analytics now provides call summarization.

March 21, 2022

Chapter update

The introductory chapter now showcases Amazon Transcribe use cases.

March 21, 2022

Chapter update

The Getting started chapter has been updated to be method-specific.

March 21, 2022

Chapter update

The Streaming chapter has been updated and restructured.

March 21, 2022

Feature update

Language identification now supports custom vocabularies and custom vocabulary filters with streaming transcriptions.

March 11, 2022

New event

There is a new event type: Vocabulary events.

February 7, 2022

Section update

Updates have been made to the custom vocabularies section.

January 20, 2022

New feature

Language identification can now be used with streaming transcriptions.

November 23, 2021

New feature

Language identification can now be used with custom language models, custom vocabularies, vocabulary filtering, and content redaction.

October 29, 2021

New feature

Amazon Transcribe now supports custom language models with streaming transcriptions.

October 20, 2021

New feature

Amazon Transcribe can now generate subtitles for your video files.

September 16, 2021

New feature

Amazon Transcribe now supports PII redaction and identification for streaming.

September 14, 2021

New feature

Amazon Transcribe now supports AWS KMS encryption context for an added level of security for your AWS account resources.

September 10, 2021

New languages

Amazon Transcribe now supports Afrikaans, Danish, Mandarin Chinese (Traditional), Thai, New Zealand English, and South African English.

August 26, 2021

New feature

Amazon Transcribe now supports resource tagging.

August 24, 2021

New feature

Amazon Transcribe now supports Call Analytics for batch transcription jobs.

August 4, 2021

New feature

Amazon Transcribe now supports using custom vocabularies with batch custom language models.

May 12, 2021

New feature

Amazon Transcribe now supports partial result stabilization for streaming transcription.

May 11, 2021

New feature

Amazon Transcribe now supports Australian English, British English, Hindi, and US Spanish for custom language models.

March 19, 2021

New feature

Amazon Transcribe now supports OGG/OPUS and FLAC codecs for streaming audio transcription.

November 24, 2020

New languages

Amazon Transcribe adds support for Italian and German for streaming audio transcription.

November 4, 2020

AWS Region expansion

Amazon Transcribe is now available in the Frankfurt (eu-central-1) and London (eu-west-2).

November 4, 2020

New feature

Amazon Transcribe adds support for interface VPC endpoints in batch transcription.

October 9, 2020

New feature

Amazon Transcribe adds support for channel identification in streaming.

September 17, 2020

New feature

Amazon Transcribe adds support for automatic language identification in batch transcription.

September 15, 2020

New feature

Amazon Transcribe adds support for speaker partitioning in streaming.

August 19, 2020

New feature

Amazon Transcribe adds support for custom language models.

August 5, 2020

New feature

Amazon Transcribe adds support for interface VPC endpoints in streaming.

June 26, 2020

New feature

Amazon Transcribe adds support for vocabulary filtering in streaming.

May 20, 2020

New feature

Amazon Transcribe adds support for automatically redacting personally identifiable information.

February 26, 2020

New feature

Amazon Transcribe adds support for creating a custom vocabulary of words to filter from a transcription.

December 20, 2019

New feature

Amazon Transcribe adds support for queueing transcription jobs.

December 19, 2019

New languages

Amazon Transcribe adds support for Gulf Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Malay, Swiss German, Telugu, and Turkish.

November 21, 2019

AWS Region expansion

Amazon Transcribe is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) (ap-northeast-1).

November 21, 2019

New feature

Amazon Transcribe adds support for alternative transcriptions.

November 20, 2019

New languages

Amazon Transcribe adds support for Dutch, Farsi, Indonesian, Irish English, Portuguese, Scottish English, Tamil, and Welsh English.

November 12, 2019

New language

Amazon Transcribe now supports streaming transcription for Australian English (en-AU).

October 25, 2019

AWS Region expansion

Amazon Transcribe is now available in the China (Beijing) (cn-north-1) and China (Ningxia) (cn-northwest-1).

October 9, 2019

New feature

Amazon Transcribe allows you to provide your own KMS key to encrypt your transcription output files. For more information, see the OutputEncryptionKMSKeyId parameter of the StartStreamTranscription API.

September 24, 2019

New languages

Amazon Transcribe adds support for Chinese (Mandarin), Simplified, Mainland China and Russian.

August 23, 2019

New feature

Amazon Transcribe adds support for streaming audio transcription using the WebSocket protocol.

July 19, 2019

New feature

AWS CloudTrail now records events for the StartStreamTranscription API.

July 19, 2019

AWS Region expansion

Amazon Transcribe is now available in the US West (N. California) (us-west-1).

June 27, 2019

New language

Amazon Transcribe adds support for Modern Standard Arabic.

May 28, 2019

New feature

Amazon Transcribe now transcribes numeric words into numbers for US English. For example, "forty-two" is transcribed as "42".

May 23, 2019

New language

Amazon Transcribe adds support for Hindi and Indian English.

May 15, 2019

New SDK

The AWS SDK for C++ now supports Amazon Transcribe.

May 8, 2019

New language

Amazon Transcribe adds support for Spanish.

April 19, 2019

AWS Region expansion

Amazon Transcribe is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) (eu-central-1) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2).

April 18, 2019

New language

Amazon Transcribe adds support for streaming transcription in British English, French, and Canadian French.

April 5, 2019

New feature

The AWS SDK for Ruby V3 now supports Amazon Transcribe

March 25, 2019

New feature

Amazon Transcribe allows custom vocabularies, which are lists of specific words that you want Amazon Transcribe to recognize in your audio input.

March 25, 2019

New languages

Amazon Transcribe adds support for German and Korean.

March 22, 2019

New language

Amazon Transcribe now supports streaming transcription for US Spanish (es-US).

February 7, 2019

AWS Region expansion

Amazon Transcribe is now available in the South America (São Paulo) (sa-east-1).

February 7, 2019

AWS Region expansion

Amazon Transcribe is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1), Asia Pacific (Singapore) (ap-southeast-1), EU (London) (eu-west-2), and EU (Paris) (eu-west3).

January 24, 2019

New languages

Amazon Transcribe adds support for French, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese.

December 20, 2018

New feature

Amazon Transcribe now supports transcription of audio streams.

November 19, 2018

New languages

Amazon Transcribe adds support for Australian English, British English, and Canadian French.

November 15, 2018

AWS Region expansion

Amazon Transcribe is now available in Canada (Central) (ca-central-1) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) (ap-southeast-2).

July 17, 2018

New feature

You can now specify your own location to store the output from a transcription job.

July 11, 2018

New feature

Added AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch Events integration.

June 28, 2018

New feature

Amazon Transcribe adds support for custom vocabularies.

April 4, 2018

New guide

This is the first release of the Amazon Transcribe Developer Guide.

November 29, 2017