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Transcribe audio

Amazon Transcribe

AWS speech-to-text service that transcribes audio files from S3 or live streams into JSON transcripts with timestamps.

At a glance

Provider
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Category
Transcribe audio
Type
Hosted API
Pricing model
Pay as you go, billed monthly per second of audio3
Free tier
60 audio minutes a month for the first 12 months1
Authentication
AWS IAM credentials with SigV4-signed requests10
Connect via
REST API through AWS SDKs and CLI, HTTP/2 and WebSocket streaming, general AWS MCP server6
Read from the provider's pages
2026-11-04
Pricing
  • Pricing model: Pay as you go, billed monthly per second of transcribed audio
  • Free tier: 60 audio minutes a month for the first 12 months; not applied to content redaction or custom language models
  • Card required for free tier: Not published
Pricing in full →Tools
  • Official MCP server: Yes, remote
  • Address or package: https://aws-mcp.us-east-1.api.aws/mcp (via mcp-proxy-for-aws-cli)
  • Transcribe-specific MCP server: No
Tools in full →Authentication
  • Who creates the account: A person with an AWS account; sign-up by an agent alone is not stated
  • Where to get a key: No Transcribe-specific key; AWS IAM credentials (temporary role credentials preferred over long-term user keys)
  • Other requirements: An AWS account and an Amazon S3 bucket holding the media for batch jobs
Authentication in full →Setup
  • REST API: transcribe.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (batch), transcribestreaming.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (streaming); other regions use the same pattern
  • MCP server: https://aws-mcp.us-east-1.api.aws/mcp (general AWS MCP server)
  • OpenAPI spec: Not published
Setup in full →Limits
  • Concurrent batch jobs: 250 per region (adjustable)
  • Concurrent streams: 25 per region (adjustable)
  • Maximum audio file length: 28,800 seconds (8 hours); Call Analytics batch 14,400 seconds
Limits in full →Privacy
  • Data location: Batch transcripts go to your S3 bucket or a service-managed bucket; processing region is the one you call
  • Retention: Transcripts in a service-managed bucket and job records are kept 90 days; Amazon may temporarily store content
  • Used for training: Content may be used to improve the service; opt-out through an AWS Organizations policy
Privacy in full →

Read from Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/transcribe-audio/amazon-transcribe.md