Transcribe audio
Amazon Transcribe
AWS speech-to-text service that transcribes audio files from S3 or live streams into JSON transcripts with timestamps.
Addresses
- REST API
transcribe.us-east-1.amazonaws.com(batch),transcribestreaming.us-east-1.amazonaws.com(streaming); other regions use the same pattern8- MCP server
https://aws-mcp.us-east-1.api.aws/mcp(general AWS MCP server)15- OpenAPI spec
- Not published
- Docs for agents
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/llms.txt; API referencehttps://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/llms.txt14- Status page
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status(HTTP 200)17
Install
| What | Command |
|---|---|
| Start a batch job with the AWS CLI | aws transcribe start-transcription-job --region us-west-2 --transcription-job-name my-job --media MediaFileUri=s3://BUCKET/file.flac --language-code en-US |
| Connect to the AWS MCP server (Kiro config) | uvx mcp-proxy-for-aws-cli@latest https://aws-mcp.us-east-1.api.aws/mcp |
| AWS CLI setup for agents | aws configure agent-toolkit |
| Claude Code plugin | /plugin install aws-core@claude-plugins-official |
| AWS SDKs | Listed for .NET, C++, Go, Java V2, JavaScript, PHP V3, Python Boto3, Ruby V3, Rust; no install command on the docs page |
Source12Transcribing with the AWS CLI
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