Amazon Transcribe Getting Started

Amazon Transcribe is a fully managed artificial intelligence (AI) service that helps you convert speech to text using automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology.

In this Getting Started course, you will learn about the benefits, features, typical use cases, technical concepts, and costs of Amazon Transcribe. You will review an architecture for a transcription solution using Amazon Transcribe that you can further adapt to your use case. Through a guided tutorial consisting of narrated video, step-by-step instructions, and transcripts, you will also try real-time and batch transcription in your own Amazon Web Services (AWS) account.

Course level: Fundamental

• Duration: 1.5 hours

Activities: This course includes presentations, graphics, and a step-by-step tutorial to follow along.

Course objectives:
In this course, you will do the following:

• Understand how Amazon Transcribe works.
• Familiarize yourself with basic concepts of Amazon Transcribe.
• Recognize the benefits of Amazon Transcribe.
• List typical use cases for Amazon Transcribe.
• Describe the typical architectures associated with an Amazon Transcribe solution.
• Specify what it would take to implement Amazon Transcribe in a real-world scenario.
• Understand the cost structure of Amazon Transcribe.
• Implement a demonstration of Amazon Transcribe in the AWS Management Console.

Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have completed the following trainings:

• AWS Technical Essentials Course outline
• Introduction to Amazon Transcribe
• Architecture and Use Cases
• How Do You Create a Real-Time Transcription in the AWS Management Console?
• How Do You Create a Batch Transcription in the AWS Management Console?
• How Do You Create a Transcription Using a Custom Vocabulary?