Reduce Amazon Transcribe costs with these tips

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Amazon Transcribe cost saving tips

Optimize your Amazon Transcribe costs with these tips

Pick Appropriate Model

Choose the transcription model that suits your needs. Standard model costs less per minute, while channel identification model is pricier.

Analyze Usage Pattern

Understand your transcription usage patterns. For example, transcribing shorter audio files instead of longer ones can reduce costs.

Use Batch Transcription

Use Amazon Transcribe batch transcription for pre-recorded audio files rather than costlier real-time streaming transcription.

Service information & pricing

About Amazon Transcribe

About Amazon Transcribe

Amazon Transcribe automatically transforms speech to text. It can be utilized for extracting business insights from communications like customer calls, creating subtitles, detecting inappropriate audio content, and improving clinical notes. Offering advanced speech recognition and custom models for accuracy with privacy mechanisms, it's applicable in customer service, healthcare, gaming, social media, etc.

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Amazon Transcribe pricing

Amazon Transcribe uses a pay-per-use model, charging per seconds of transcription per month. There is a free tier for initial 12 months allowing 60 minutes of transcription monthly. Post-free usage, regular rates are applicable. Standard pricing covers PII redaction, custom vocabulary, and filtering. Extra costs apply for automated content redaction & custom language models. Billing is per-second, minimum charge is 15 seconds per request.

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