Use DeleteVocabulary with an AWS SDK or command line tool

The following code examples show how to use DeleteVocabulary.

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• 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>
    /// Delete an existing custom vocabulary.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="vocabularyName">Name of the vocabulary to delete.</param>
    /// <returns>True if successful.</returns>
    public async Task<bool> DeleteCustomVocabulary(string vocabularyName)
    {
        var response = await _amazonTranscribeService.DeleteVocabularyAsync(
            new DeleteVocabularyRequest
            {
                VocabularyName = vocabularyName
            });
        return response.HttpStatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK;
    }

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

CLI

AWS CLI

To delete a custom vocabulary

The following delete-vocabulary example deletes a custom vocabulary.

aws transcribe delete-vocabulary \
    --vocabulary-name vocabulary-name

This command produces no output.

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

• For API details, see DeleteVocabulary 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 delete_vocabulary(vocabulary_name, transcribe_client):
    """
    Deletes a custom vocabulary.

    :param vocabulary_name: The name of the vocabulary to delete.
    :param transcribe_client: The Boto3 Transcribe client.
    """
    try:
        transcribe_client.delete_vocabulary(VocabularyName=vocabulary_name)
        logger.info("Deleted vocabulary %s.", vocabulary_name)
    except ClientError:
        logger.exception("Couldn't delete vocabulary %s.", vocabulary_name)
        raise

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

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