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Alternative - Amazon Transcribe

A list of possible alternative transcriptions for the input audio. Each alternative may contain one or more of Items, Entities, or Transcript.

Contents

Entities

Contains entities identified as personally identifiable information (PII) in your transcription output.

Type: Array of Entity objects

Required: No

Items

Contains words, phrases, or punctuation marks in your transcription output.

Type: Array of Item objects

Required: No

Transcript

Contains transcribed text.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also

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

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