# Amazon Transcribe

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-transcribe/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Amazon Transcribe is a speech-to-text service that uses machine learning models to convert audio to text, supporting real-time streaming and batch transcription with automatic speech recognition (ASR).

## Kin Score — 50.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 50.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 65.7 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 51.3 |
| Access Clarity | 51.3 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (2)

- **Amazon Transcribe Transcription Jobs API** — The Transcription Jobs API from Amazon Transcribe — 4 operation(s) for transcription jobs.
- **Amazon Transcribe Vocabularies API** — The Vocabularies API from Amazon Transcribe — 1 operation(s) for vocabularies.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Transcribe Agentic Access** — 5 operations · 5 acting

## Security (4)

- **Amazon Transcribe Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Amazon Transcribe Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Amazon Transcribe Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Amazon Transcribe Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Transcribe Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (1)

- **Cloud Operations** — Use Amazon Transcribe to manage and automate cloud operations.

## Tags

Audio Processing, Machine-Learning, Speech Recognition, Speech-to-Text, Transcription

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-transcribe/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.