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Episode 94: AI Services: Translate & Transcribe

August 31, 2025 · 23 min

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In this episode, we explore two AWS AI services designed to help you break language barriers and convert speech into text: Amazon Translate and Amazon Transcribe. Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers high-quality, real-time translations between numerous languages. We’ll walk you through how to use Translate for building multilingual applications, whether you're translating user-generated content, support tickets, or documents. Amazon Translate makes it easy to support global audiences, ensuring your content can be understood in any language.

Next, we’ll dive into Amazon Transcribe, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that converts speech into text. Transcribe is ideal for applications that require transcription, such as voice search, customer service recordings, and media content transcription. We’ll demonstrate how to use Transcribe for real-time and batch transcription of audio files, including its ability to detect different speakers and generate timestamped text. By the end of this episode, you'll understand how to use Translate and Transcribe to incorporate real-time language translation and speech-to-text functionality into your applications. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, your trusted resource for expert-driven cybersecurity education.

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