get-transcription-job¶

Description¶

Returns information about a transcription job. To see the status of the job, check the TranscriptionJobStatus field. If the status is COMPLETED , the job is finished and you can find the results at the location specified in the TranscriptFileUri field. If you enable content redaction, the redacted transcript appears in RedactedTranscriptFileUri .

Synopsis¶

  get-transcription-job
--transcription-job-name <value>
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options¶

--transcription-job-name (string)

The name of the job.

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples¶

To get information about a specific transcription job

The following get-transcription-job example gets information about a specific transcription job. To access the transcription results, use the TranscriptFileUri parameter. Use the MediaFileUri parameter to see which audio file you transcribed with this job. You can use the Settings object to see the optional features you’ve enabled in the transcription job.

aws transcribe get-transcription-job \
    --transcription-job-name your-transcription-job

Output:

{
    "TranscriptionJob": {
        "TranscriptionJobName": "your-transcription-job",
        "TranscriptionJobStatus": "COMPLETED",
        "LanguageCode": "language-code",
        "MediaSampleRateHertz": 48000,
        "MediaFormat": "mp4",
        "Media": {
            "MediaFileUri": "s3://DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET/your-audio-file.file-extension"
        },
        "Transcript": {
            "TranscriptFileUri": "https://Amazon-S3-file-location-of-transcription-output"
        },
        "StartTime": "2020-09-18T22:27:23.970000+00:00",
        "CreationTime": "2020-09-18T22:27:23.948000+00:00",
        "CompletionTime": "2020-09-18T22:28:21.197000+00:00",
        "Settings": {
            "ChannelIdentification": false,
            "ShowAlternatives": false
        },
        "IdentifyLanguage": true,
        "IdentifiedLanguageScore": 0.8672199249267578
    }
}

For more information, see Getting Started (AWS Command Line Interface) in the Amazon Transcribe Developer Guide.

Output¶

TranscriptionJob -> (structure)

An object that contains the results of the transcription job.

TranscriptionJobName -> (string)

The name of the transcription job.

TranscriptionJobStatus -> (string)

The status of the transcription job.

LanguageCode -> (string)

The language code for the input speech.

MediaSampleRateHertz -> (integer)

The sample rate, in Hertz, of the audio track in the input media file.

MediaFormat -> (string)

The format of the input media file.

Media -> (structure)

An object that describes the input media for the transcription job.

MediaFileUri -> (string)

The S3 object location of the input media file. The URI must be in the same region as the API endpoint that you are calling. The general form is:

For example:

For more information about S3 object names, see Object Keys in the Amazon S3 Developer Guide .

Transcript -> (structure)

An object that describes the output of the transcription job.

TranscriptFileUri -> (string)

The S3 object location of the transcript.

Use this URI to access the transcript. If you specified an S3 bucket in the OutputBucketName field when you created the job, this is the URI of that bucket. If you chose to store the transcript in Amazon Transcribe, this is a shareable URL that provides secure access to that location.

RedactedTranscriptFileUri -> (string)

The S3 object location of the redacted transcript.

Use this URI to access the redacted transcript. If you specified an S3 bucket in the OutputBucketName field when you created the job, this is the URI of that bucket. If you chose to store the transcript in Amazon Transcribe, this is a shareable URL that provides secure access to that location.

StartTime -> (timestamp)

A timestamp that shows with the job was started processing.

CreationTime -> (timestamp)

A timestamp that shows when the job was created.

CompletionTime -> (timestamp)

A timestamp that shows when the job was completed.

FailureReason -> (string)

If the TranscriptionJobStatus field is FAILED , this field contains information about why the job failed.

The FailureReason field can contain one of the following values:

Unsupported media format - The media format specified in the MediaFormat field of the request isn’t valid. See the description of the MediaFormat field for a list of valid values.

The media format provided does not match the detected media format - The media format of the audio file doesn’t match the format specified in the MediaFormat field in the request. Check the media format of your media file and make sure that the two values match.

Invalid sample rate for audio file - The sample rate specified in the MediaSampleRateHertz of the request isn’t valid. The sample rate must be between 8000 and 48000 Hertz.

The sample rate provided does not match the detected sample rate - The sample rate in the audio file doesn’t match the sample rate specified in the MediaSampleRateHertz field in the request. Check the sample rate of your media file and make sure that the two values match.

Invalid file size: file size too large - The size of your audio file is larger than Amazon Transcribe can process. For more information, see Limits in the Amazon Transcribe Developer Guide .

Invalid number of channels: number of channels too large - Your audio contains more channels than Amazon Transcribe is configured to process. To request additional channels, see Amazon Transcribe Limits in the Amazon Web Services General Reference .

Settings -> (structure)

Optional settings for the transcription job. Use these settings to turn on speaker recognition, to set the maximum number of speakers that should be identified and to specify a custom vocabulary to use when processing the transcription job.

VocabularyName -> (string)

The name of a vocabulary to use when processing the transcription job.

ShowSpeakerLabels -> (boolean)

Determines whether the transcription job uses speaker recognition to identify different speakers in the input audio. Speaker recognition labels individual speakers in the audio file. If you set the ShowSpeakerLabels field to true, you must also set the maximum number of speaker labels MaxSpeakerLabels field.

You can’t set both ShowSpeakerLabels and ChannelIdentification in the same request. If you set both, your request returns a BadRequestException .

MaxSpeakerLabels -> (integer)

The maximum number of speakers to identify in the input audio. If there are more speakers in the audio than this number, multiple speakers are identified as a single speaker. If you specify the MaxSpeakerLabels field, you must set the ShowSpeakerLabels field to true.

ChannelIdentification -> (boolean)

Instructs Amazon Transcribe to process each audio channel separately and then merge the transcription output of each channel into a single transcription.

Amazon Transcribe also produces a transcription of each item detected on an audio channel, including the start time and end time of the item and alternative transcriptions of the item including the confidence that Amazon Transcribe has in the transcription.

You can’t set both ShowSpeakerLabels and ChannelIdentification in the same request. If you set both, your request returns a BadRequestException .

ShowAlternatives -> (boolean)

Determines whether the transcription contains alternative transcriptions. If you set the ShowAlternatives field to true, you must also set the maximum number of alternatives to return in the MaxAlternatives field.

MaxAlternatives -> (integer)

The number of alternative transcriptions that the service should return. If you specify the MaxAlternatives field, you must set the ShowAlternatives field to true.

VocabularyFilterName -> (string)

The name of the vocabulary filter to use when transcribing the audio. The filter that you specify must have the same language code as the transcription job.

VocabularyFilterMethod -> (string)

Set to mask to remove filtered text from the transcript and replace it with three asterisks (“***”) as placeholder text. Set to remove to remove filtered text from the transcript without using placeholder text.

ModelSettings -> (structure)

An object containing the details of your custom language model.

LanguageModelName -> (string)

The name of your custom language model.

JobExecutionSettings -> (structure)

Provides information about how a transcription job is executed.

AllowDeferredExecution -> (boolean)

Indicates whether a job should be queued by Amazon Transcribe when the concurrent execution limit is exceeded. When the AllowDeferredExecution field is true, jobs are queued and executed when the number of executing jobs falls below the concurrent execution limit. If the field is false, Amazon Transcribe returns a LimitExceededException exception.

If you specify the AllowDeferredExecution field, you must specify the DataAccessRoleArn field.

DataAccessRoleArn -> (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of a role that has access to the S3 bucket that contains the input files. Amazon Transcribe assumes this role to read queued media files. If you have specified an output S3 bucket for the transcription results, this role should have access to the output bucket as well.

If you specify the AllowDeferredExecution field, you must specify the DataAccessRoleArn field.

ContentRedaction -> (structure)

An object that describes content redaction settings for the transcription job.

RedactionType -> (string)

Request parameter that defines the entities to be redacted. The only accepted value is PII .

RedactionOutput -> (string)

The output transcript file stored in either the default S3 bucket or in a bucket you specify.

When you choose redacted Amazon Transcribe outputs only the redacted transcript.

When you choose redacted_and_unredacted Amazon Transcribe outputs both the redacted and unredacted transcripts.

IdentifyLanguage -> (boolean)

A value that shows if automatic language identification was enabled for a transcription job.

LanguageOptions -> (list)

An object that shows the optional array of languages inputted for transcription jobs with automatic language identification enabled.

(string)

IdentifiedLanguageScore -> (float)

A value between zero and one that Amazon Transcribe assigned to the language that it identified in the source audio. Larger values indicate that Amazon Transcribe has higher confidence in the language it identified.

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