# What Is Elemental Inference?
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AWS Elemental Inference is a real-time service that lets you easily apply machine learning models to video, audio, and image content for automated analysis, classification, and insights generation. Features include smart crop, event clipping, and smart subtitles. Smart subtitles uses automatic speech recognition (ASR) to generate TTML subtitles from audio in your source media.

**Topics**
+ [Accessing Elemental Inference](what-is-accessing.md)

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Elemental Inference. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query elemental-inference` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).