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Character set for Amazon Transcribe Medical

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Character set for Amazon Transcribe Medical - Amazon Transcribe

To use custom vocabularies in Amazon Transcribe Medical, use the following character set.

English character set

For English custom vocabularies, you can use the following characters in the Phrase and SoundsLike columns:

  • a - z

  • A - Z

  • ' (apostrophe)

  • - (hyphen)

  • . (period)

You can use the following International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) characters in the IPA column of the vocabulary input file.

Character Code Character Code
0061 028A w 0077
0061 026A z 007A
b 0062 æ 00E6
d 0064 ð 00F0
0065 026A ŋ 014B
f 0066 ɑ 0251
g 0067 ɔ 0254
h 0068 ɔɪ 0254 026A
i 0069 ə 0259
j 006A ɛ 025B
k 006B ɝ 025D
l 006C ɡ 0261
006C 0329 ɪ 026A
m 006D ɹ 0279
n 006E ʃ 0283
006E 0329 ʊ 028A
006F 028A ʌ 028C
p 0070 ʍ 028D
s 0073 ʒ 0292
t 0074 ʤ 02A4
u 0075 ʧ 02A7
v 0076 θ 03B8

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