Select your cookie preferences

We use essential cookies and similar tools that are necessary to provide our site and services. We use performance cookies to collect anonymous statistics, so we can understand how customers use our site and make improvements. Essential cookies cannot be deactivated, but you can choose “Customize” or “Decline” to decline performance cookies.

If you agree, AWS and approved third parties will also use cookies to provide useful site features, remember your preferences, and display relevant content, including relevant advertising. To accept or decline all non-essential cookies, choose “Accept” or “Decline.” To make more detailed choices, choose “Customize.”

Media

Focus mode
Media - Amazon Transcribe

Describes the Amazon S3 location of the media file you want to use in your request.

For information on supported media formats, refer to the MediaFormat parameter or the Media formats section in the Amazon S3 Developer Guide.

Contents

MediaFileUri

The Amazon S3 location of the media file you want to transcribe. For example:

  • s3://DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET/my-media-file.flac

  • s3://DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET/media-files/my-media-file.flac

Note that the Amazon S3 bucket that contains your input media must be located in the same AWS Region where you're making your transcription request.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 2000.

Pattern: (s3://|http(s*)://).+

Required: No

RedactedMediaFileUri

The Amazon S3 location of the media file you want to redact. For example:

  • s3://DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET/my-media-file.flac

  • s3://DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET/media-files/my-media-file.flac

Note that the Amazon S3 bucket that contains your input media must be located in the same AWS Region where you're making your transcription request.

Important

RedactedMediaFileUri produces a redacted audio file in addition to a redacted transcript. It is only supported for Call Analytics (StartCallAnalyticsJob) transcription requests.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 2000.

Pattern: (s3://|http(s*)://).+

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

On this page

PrivacySite termsCookie preferences
© 2025, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.