Amazon Q Business extracts semantic information from audio and video files, making data sources queryable and enhancing information retrieval.
Capabilities
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Processes up to 10 GB of video and 2 GB of audio
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Builds a comprehensive knowledge base
Enabling Content
Extraction
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Use the Amazon Q Business console or API
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Available when adding connectors or importing files
Audio and video extraction
The System extracts the following from audio and video files:
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Transcribed text from audio voice content
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Time-stamped indexing of content
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Summary and theme detection
Important
Processing multimedia content takes longer than text-only documents. Incremental sync mode is recommended for multimedia processing.
Query audio and video content using natural language, and explore deeper with follow-up questions.
Processing
Considerations
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Audio and video files take longer to process than text-only files
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Amazon Q Business doesn't charge for re-synchronizations (re-syncs) when content remains unchanged.
Additional
Information
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For sync modes, see Sync mode
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For pricing details, see Amazon Q Business pricing
Guidelines and
requirements
The following guidelines and best practices apply to content extraction from audio and video. Supported formats:
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Audio files - MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG
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Video files - MP4, MOV, M4V
File limitations:
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Audio and video maximum duration: 4 hours
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English-language content only
The following connectors use incremental sync mode for connectors processing multimedia content, and can consider additional costs for multimedia processing:
Ingest Audio/Video
documents using the console
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Login to your personal AWS account
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Create a new application or use an existing application
Ingest Audio/Video files using direct upload
Open the application, whether it is a newly created application or an application you have used previously:
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Click Add data source
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Select the Upload Files option
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Upload a supported Audio/Video file
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In the File Indexing Configuration, select the audio/video files option based on the files you uploaded
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Click the upload button on the bottom right corner
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Monitor the uploaded file source under the data source tab. The status will update in sequence: "Received" => "Processing" => "Indexed/Updated"
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Once the status is Indexed/Updated, it means your file is indexed successfully
Note
For file uploads, the Audio/Video size limit is consistent with the general file size limit of 50 MB.
Ingest Audio/Video documents using data source
Open the application, whether it is a newly created application or an application you have used previously:
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Click Add data source
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Select any supported data source
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Fill in the following information:
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Enter the data source name
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For the IAM role, select from the dropdown menu Create new service role
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Enter the S3 bucket containing the Audio/Video files in the Data Source Location field under Sync scope
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Set Sync Mode and Sync Run as per your requirement
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Click on Add data source on the bottom right corner
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Navigate to the Data sources pag and select the data source created and click Sync now
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Click on the data source created, wait for the sync to complete and verify no documents from the Sync history tab Failed to be indexed
