Transcribing streaming audio
Using Amazon Transcribe streaming, you can produce real-time transcriptions for your media content. Unlike batch transcriptions, which involve uploading media files, streaming media is delivered to Amazon Transcribe in real time. Amazon Transcribe then returns a transcript, also in real time.
Streaming can include pre-recorded media (movies, music, and podcasts) and real-time media (live news broadcasts). Common streaming use cases for Amazon Transcribe include live closed captioning for sporting events and real-time monitoring of call center audio.
Streaming content is delivered as a series of sequential data packets, or 'chunks,' that Amazon Transcribe transcribes instantaneously. The advantages of using streaming over batch include real-time speech-to-text capabilities in your applications and faster transcription times. However, this increased speed may have accuracy limitations in some cases.
Amazon Transcribe offers the following options for streaming:
We strongly recommend using an SDK rather than using HTTP/2 or WebSockets
directly. For SDK code examples, refer to the AWS Samples repository
Audio formats supported for streaming transcriptions are:
FLAC
OPUS-encoded audio in an Ogg container
PCM (only signed 16-bit little-endian audio formats, which does not include WAV)
Lossless formats (FLAC or PCM) are recommended.
To transcribe streaming audio in the AWS Management Console, speak into your computer microphone.
Streaming transcriptions are not supported with all languages. Refer to the 'Data input' column in the supported languages table for details.
To view the Amazon Transcribe Region availability for streaming transcriptions, see: Amazon Transcribe Endpoints and Quotas.
