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# AWS Transcribe

> Amazon Transcribe is a fully managed automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy to add speech-to-text capabilities to applications.

Amazon Transcribe delivers real-time and batch speech recognition with support for custom vocabularies, speaker diarization, and content redaction. It integrates natively with AWS infrastructure for low-latency voice workloads.

## Getting Started

Follow these steps to configure your provider:

<Steps>
  <Step title="Add AWS credentials to your vault">
    Navigate to **Integration → Vault** in the Rapida dashboard and add your AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key. Ensure the associated IAM role has `AmazonTranscribeFullAccess` (or a scoped equivalent).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Select AWS Transcribe as your STT provider">
    When configuring your assistant, open **Audio Settings** and choose **AWS** as your Speech-to-Text provider.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Select a region">
    Choose the AWS region closest to your deployment for lowest latency (e.g. `us-east-1`, `eu-west-1`, `ap-southeast-1`).
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Key Features

* **Real-time streaming**: Low-latency streaming transcription for live voice applications
* **Custom vocabularies**: Improve accuracy for domain-specific terms (medical, legal, technical)
* **Speaker diarization**: Identify and separate multiple speakers in a conversation
* **Content redaction**: Automatically redact PII (names, phone numbers, SSNs) from transcripts
* **Custom language models**: Train models on domain-specific text corpora

## Supported Languages

Amazon Transcribe supports 100+ languages and dialects. For streaming transcription, availability varies by region. See the [AWS Transcribe documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/supported-languages.html) for a full list.

## Configuration Options

| Option          | Description                                  |
| --------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| Region          | AWS region for the Transcribe service        |
| Language code   | BCP-47 language code (e.g. `en-US`, `es-US`) |
| Vocabulary name | Optional custom vocabulary to use            |
| Sample rate     | Audio sample rate in Hz (8000 or 16000)      |

## Notes

* AWS Transcribe streaming uses WebSocket connections; Rapida manages the connection lifecycle.
* For lower cost on non-real-time workloads, batch transcription is available via the REST API.
* Costs are billed per second of audio processed. See [AWS Transcribe pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/pricing/).

## Related

* [AWS Polly TTS](/integrations/tts/aws-polly)