In 2017, we launched Amazon Transcribe, an automatic speech recognition service that makes it easy for developers to add a speech-to-text capability to their applications. Since then, we added support for more languages, enabling customers globally to transcribe audio recordings in 31 languages, including 6 in real-time.

A popular use case for Amazon Transcribe is transcribing customer calls. This allows companies to analyze the transcribed text using natural language processing techniques to detect sentiment or to identify the most common call causes. If you operate in a country with multiple official languages or across multiple regions, your audio files can contain different languages. Thus, files have to be tagged manually with the appropriate language before transcription can take place. This typically involves setting up teams of multi-lingual speakers, which creates additional costs and delays in processing audio files.

The media and entertainment industry often uses Amazon Transcribe to convert media content into accessible and searchable text files. Use cases include generating subtitles or transcripts, moderating content, and more. Amazon Transcribe is also used by operations team for quality control, for example checking that audio and video are in sync thanks to the timestamps present in the extracted text. However, other problems couldn’t be easily solved, such as verifying that the main spoken language in your videos is correctly labeled to avoid streaming video in the wrong language.

Today, I’m extremely happy to announce that Amazon Transcribe can now automatically identify the dominant language in an audio recording. This feature will help customers build more efficient transcription workflows by getting rid of manual tagging. In addition to the examples mentioned above, you can now also easily use Amazon Transcribe to automatically recognize and transcribe voicemails, meetings, and any form of recorded communication.

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