Document history for Amazon Transcribe
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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.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Amazon Transcribe now supports generative call summarization. | November 29, 2023 | |
Update new PII redaction and Language Identification output format. | November 13, 2023 | |
Diarization can now be combined with channel identification. | March 6, 2023 | |
Channel identification can now be combined with diarization. | March 6, 2023 | |
IAM best practices have been updated. | February 13, 2023 | |
Amazon Transcribe now supports Vietnamese and Swedish. | December 6, 2022 | |
The Amazon Transcribe API Reference is now a standalone guide. | April 1, 2022 | |
A new SDK code examples chapter is included. | March 21, 2022 | |
Call Analytics now provides call summarization. | March 21, 2022 | |
The introductory chapter now showcases Amazon Transcribe use cases. | March 21, 2022 | |
The Getting started chapter has been updated to be method-specific. | March 21, 2022 | |
The Streaming chapter has been updated and restructured. | March 21, 2022 | |
There is a new event type: Vocabulary events. | February 7, 2022 | |
Updates have been made to the custom vocabularies section. | January 20, 2022 | |
Amazon Transcribe now supports custom language models with streaming transcriptions. | October 20, 2021 | |
Amazon Transcribe can now generate subtitles for your video files. | September 16, 2021 | |
Amazon Transcribe now supports PII redaction and identification for streaming. | September 14, 2021 | |
Amazon Transcribe now supports Amazon KMS encryption context for an added level of security for your Amazon Web Services account resources. | September 10, 2021 | |
Amazon Transcribe now supports Afrikaans, Danish, Mandarin Chinese (Traditional), Thai, New Zealand English, and South African English. | August 26, 2021 | |
Amazon Transcribe now supports resource tagging. | August 24, 2021 | |
Amazon Transcribe now supports Call Analytics for batch transcription jobs. | August 4, 2021 | |
Amazon Transcribe now supports partial result stabilization for streaming transcription. | May 11, 2021 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for Italian and German for streaming audio transcription. | November 4, 2020 | |
Amazon Transcribe is now available in the Frankfurt (eu-central-1) and London (eu-west-2). | November 4, 2020 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for interface VPC endpoints in batch transcription. | October 9, 2020 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for channel identification in streaming. | September 17, 2020 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for speaker partitioning in streaming. | August 19, 2020 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for interface VPC endpoints in streaming. | June 26, 2020 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for vocabulary filtering in streaming. | May 20, 2020 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for creating a custom vocabulary of words to filter from a transcription. | December 20, 2019 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for queueing transcription jobs. | December 19, 2019 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for Gulf Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Malay, Swiss German, Telugu, and Turkish. | November 21, 2019 | |
Amazon Transcribe is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) (ap-northeast-1). | November 21, 2019 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for alternative transcriptions. | November 20, 2019 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for Dutch, Farsi, Indonesian, Irish English, Portuguese, Scottish English, Tamil, and Welsh English. | November 12, 2019 | |
Amazon Transcribe now supports streaming transcription for Australian English (en-AU). | October 25, 2019 | |
Amazon Transcribe is now available in the China (Beijing) (cn-north-1) and China (Ningxia) (cn-northwest-1). | October 9, 2019 | |
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 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for Chinese (Mandarin), Simplified, Mainland China and Russian. | August 23, 2019 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for streaming audio transcription using the WebSocket protocol. | July 19, 2019 | |
Amazon CloudTrail now records events for the StartStreamTranscription API. | July 19, 2019 | |
Amazon Transcribe is now available in the US West (N. California) (us-west-1). | June 27, 2019 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for Modern Standard Arabic. | May 28, 2019 | |
Amazon Transcribe now transcribes numeric words into numbers for US English. For example, "forty-two" is transcribed as "42". | May 23, 2019 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for Hindi and Indian English. | May 15, 2019 | |
The Amazon SDK for C++ now supports Amazon Transcribe. | May 8, 2019 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for Spanish. | April 19, 2019 | |
Amazon Transcribe is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) (eu-central-1) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2). | April 18, 2019 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for streaming transcription in British English, French, and Canadian French. | April 5, 2019 | |
The Amazon SDK for Ruby V3 now supports Amazon Transcribe | March 25, 2019 | |
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 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for German and Korean. | March 22, 2019 | |
Amazon Transcribe now supports streaming transcription for US Spanish (es-US). | February 7, 2019 | |
Amazon Transcribe is now available in the South America (São Paulo) (sa-east-1). | February 7, 2019 | |
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 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for French, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese. | December 20, 2018 | |
Amazon Transcribe now supports transcription of audio streams. | November 19, 2018 | |
Amazon Transcribe adds support for Australian English, British English, and Canadian French. | November 15, 2018 | |
Amazon Transcribe is now available in Canada (Central) (ca-central-1) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) (ap-southeast-2). | July 17, 2018 | |
You can now specify your own location to store the output from a transcription job. | July 11, 2018 | |
Added Amazon CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch Events integration. | June 28, 2018 | |
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 |