Transcribing a video with the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) You can use your AWS account credentials to access the API, but for security reasons, it is highly recommended that you access AWS using IAM user credentials. To get started with Amazon Transcribe, you will first need to set up an AWS account and create an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user. We'll cover the last two options, but you can check out this guide for instructions on using the web console. There are several ways that you can transcribe audio/video with AWS Transcribe: you can use the Amazon Transcribe Console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or one of the various available SDKs for your preferred language. Amazon Transcribe uses machine learning to automatically transcribe speech to text and works with both audio and video files.
To add subtitles to a video, you can transcribe it manually by hand, or you can let technology help you along by using a speech-to-text service like Amazon Transcribe. Subtitles can also improve a video's SEO since Google indexes captions that you add to your videos, leading to potential boosts boosts in search engine rankings.
Subtitles make a video more accessible to those who might have impaired hearing and to those who might find it hard to follow along where the spoken language may not be not be in their native tongue.
With more than 80% of videos on social media being watched on mute adding captions to your videos can greatly increase how successful they are at communicating your message. The second part will cover how you can use your transcribed audio and convert these to captions.
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This guide is the first part of a two-part guide on how to use AWS Transcribe to transcribe the audio in a video to text.