Automatically transcribe audio and video files stored in Amazon S3

It pulls every audio and video file from your S3 bucket and creates transcription jobs automatically.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each audio or video file.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

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An outside serviceRuns once per itemA personA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Voice & PhoneImage & Media Processing
Connects
Amazon S3Amazon Transcribe

The problem it solves

You have hours of recorded calls, interviews, or video content sitting in cloud storage with no one available to type up what was said. Getting accurate transcripts usually means paying a service or spending your own evening replaying files and typing along.

Who it fits

Businesses that store recorded meetings, interviews, or media files in the cloud and need text versions of them.

How it works

  1. Runs whenever you start it, or on a schedule
  2. Pulls the list of files from your Amazon S3 bucket
  3. Sends each audio or video file to Amazon Transcribe
  4. Amazon Transcribe processes the file into a written transcript
What you get

Recordings queued for transcription without you starting each one

Every audio and video file sitting in your S3 bucket gets automatically queued for transcription, without you opening each file to start it.

What you get

A finished text transcript for each audio or video file in your S3 bucket.

What you need

An AWS account with S3 and Transcribe access.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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