Transcribe audio
Amazon Transcribe
AWS speech-to-text service that transcribes audio files from S3 or live streams into JSON transcripts with timestamps.
Your data
- Data location
- Batch transcripts go to your S3 bucket or a service-managed bucket; processing region is the one you call4
- Retention
- Transcripts in a service-managed bucket and job records are kept 90 days; Amazon may temporarily store content4
- Used for training
- Content may be used to improve the service; opt-out through an AWS Organizations policy9
- Zero data retention
- Not offered as a setting; deletion of stored content is requested through a Support case4
Compliance
- Certifications
- Not published
- HIPAA
- Eligible under the AWS HIPAA BAA; customers must encrypt PHI at rest and in transit3
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