Amazon Transcribe
Available amazon/transcribe · by Amazon · end-to-end-asr
Pricing — 1 offering(s)
Amazon Web Services
Standard transcription (first 250K min/month)
- $0.024 / minute Current 2018-04-01 → present
Real-time streaming
- $0.024 / minute Current 2018-04-01 → present
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Capability profile
transcription accuracy strong
language support strong
speaker diarisation strong
real time streaming strong
custom vocabulary strong
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Score | Config | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| WER (LibriSpeech) | — | Amazon does not publish LibriSpeech WER benchmarks. Internal benchmarks indicate competitive accuracy; independent comparisons suggest parity with Azure on clean English audio. | — |
Operator guidance
The best choice for AWS-native stacks with call centre analytics, medical transcription, or heavy PII redaction needs. At $0.024/min ($1.44/hr) it is the most expensive mainstream STT option — justified by the rich AWS ecosystem integration and Call Analytics feature. For cost, Universal-2 ($0.15/hr) is 10× cheaper. For latency, Deepgram Nova-3 is significantly faster. Volume pricing kicks in at 250K minutes/month.
Use cases
- Call centre analytics with speaker sentiment and issue detection
- Medical transcription with clinical vocabulary support
- AWS-native transcription pipelines (Lambda triggers, S3 → Transcribe → DynamoDB)
- Batch transcription with content redaction (PII) requirements
Limitations
- Most expensive mainstream STT at $0.024/min; volume discounts require 250K+ minutes
- Medical tier at $0.0750/min is a significant premium
- Custom Language Model training requires large audio transcript datasets