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Configure Audio Transcription with Amazon Transcribe
Amazon Transcribe offers powerful options to convert audio into text efficiently. This course will teach you to configure transcription jobs for scalable, event-driven audio processing using Amazon Transcribe’s key features.
What you'll learn
Accurately transcribing audio at scale requires understanding the right configuration options and integration patterns. In this course, Configure Audio Transcription with Amazon Transcribe, you’ll learn to set up transcription jobs optimized for your needs. First, you’ll explore when to use batch versus real-time transcription for different audio scenarios. Next, you’ll discover how to customize language settings, media formats, model types, and subtitle outputs. Finally, you’ll learn how to apply advanced audio settings—such as speaker or channel identification, PII redaction, and custom vocabularies—within event-driven architectures using S3 and Lambda. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to configure Amazon Transcribe needed to build scalable, accurate, and secure audio transcription workflows that integrate seamlessly into modern event-driven systems.
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About the author
Noreen Hasan has been a software engineer for over a decade in several industries ranging from startups to financial institutions. Her focus was on iOS mobile development, and in the last years her focus shifted to AWS and cloud computing. Her mantra has always been 'Building to Solve, Building to Empower' because solving problems and empowering others is the main reason she feels fulfilled in this field. When she is not developing technical solutions, she enjoys swimming, Zumba, reading and listening to podcasts.