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General
What is Amazon Transcribe Medical?
Amazon Transcribe Medical is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add medical speech-to-text capabilities to their applications. Using Amazon Transcribe Medical, you can quickly and accurately transcribe medical dictation and conversational speech into text for a variety of purposes, such as recording physician notes or processing in downstream text analytics to extract meaningful insights.
What can I do with Amazon Transcribe Medical?
Amazon Transcribe Medical uses advanced machine learning models to accurately transcribe medical speech into text. Transcribe Medical can general text transcripts that can be used to support a variety of use cases, spanning clinical documentation workflow and drug safety monitoring (pharmacovigilance) to subtitling for telemedicine and even contact center analytics in the healthcare and life sciences domains.
Do I need to be an expert in automatic speech recognition (ASR) to use Amazon Transcribe Medical?
No, you don’t need any ASR or machine learning expertise to use Amazon Transcribe Medical. You only need to call Transcribe Medical’s API, and the service will handle the required machine learning in the backend to transcribe medical speech to text.
Which languages does Amazon Transcribe Medical support?
Amazon Transcribe Medical currently supports medical transcription in US English
Which medical specialties does Amazon Transcribe Medical support?
Amazon Transcribe Medical supports transcription for an expanding list of primary care and specialty care specialties. Visit our documentation for a full list of supported medical specialties.
In which AWS regions is Amazon Transcribe Medical available?
Amazon Transcribe Medical is currently available in US-East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), EU (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Sydney).