Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics

by Amazon Web Services

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Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics adds call summaries, sentiment and talk-time to AWS transcripts. Here is what it does, what it costs, and when a plain transcription service is enough.

API  ·  from $0.03/min

TL;DR

Post-call and real-time call analytics on AWS with sentiment, talk-time, and issue detection.

Best for contact centers on AWS who want ready-made transcript + sentiment + issue analytics without building a separate pipeline. Pricing: from $0.03/min (post-call) + add-ons.

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What it is

Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics provides post-call analytics (sentiment, talk-time ratios, non-talk time, interruption count, issue/outcome/action-item detection) and a streaming variant for live agent assist. It builds on top of the standard Transcribe model. Outputs include a structured JSON of utterances plus analytics. Optional generative-AI call summarization is billed separately. Used commonly with Amazon Connect but works against any audio uploaded to S3 or streamed via WebSocket. Best fit: contact centers on aws who want ready-made transcript + sentiment + issue analytics without building a separate pipeline. Caveats: region availability is narrower than base transcribe; generative-call-summarization is a separate add-on charge. Pricing as listed: from $0.03/min (post-call) + add-ons. Feature flags from vendor docs: speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, streaming, HIPAA-eligible under BAA. Directory tags: call-analytics, hyperscaler. Last vendor-page check: 2026-05-12.

Best for: Contact centers on AWS who want ready-made transcript + sentiment + issue analytics without building a separate pipeline.
Watch out for: Region availability is narrower than base Transcribe; generative-call-summarization is a separate add-on charge.

Install / use

aws transcribe start-call-analytics-job ...

What people actually do with Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics-style transcription

The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.

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Features

Speaker diarizationYes
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeYes
Languages supportedNone
HIPAA eligibleYes

Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics vs Whipscribe

FeatureAmazon Transcribe Call AnalyticsWhipscribe
CategoryProductsTranscription APIs
PricingNot verified$6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free
Speaker identificationNot verifiedNamed in the summary, key quotes and chapters
Word timestampsNot verifiedYes
StreamingNot verifiedNo
Languages—99
PlatformsAPIWeb, API, MCP

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Frequently asked about Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics

How much does Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics cost?

Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics is a paid product — published pricing: from $0.03/min (post-call) + add-ons. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.

What platforms does Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics support?

Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics is an API — you call it from whatever you build, on any platform with an HTTP client.

How do I get started with Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics?

Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics is used through its API: get a key from the vendor, then call it from your own code. There is no desktop app to install.

What are the limitations of Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics?

Region availability is narrower than base Transcribe; generative-call-summarization is a separate add-on charge.

Who is Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics best for?

Contact centers on AWS who want ready-made transcript + sentiment + issue analytics without building a separate pipeline.

Is Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics open source?

No. Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics is a proprietary product from Amazon Web Services. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.

Who makes Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics?

Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics is made by Amazon Web Services.

What kind of tool is Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics?

In this directory Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics is filed under call analytics, hyperscaler as a product.

What are the alternatives to Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/aws-transcribe-call-analytics-alternatives comparing Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics-style transcription without running it myself?

Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.

How is Whipscribe different from Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics?

Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.

What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics?

$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.

Where is the Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics category heading?

Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.

Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.

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What we measured, last 30 days

2,547 recordings, 1,244 audio hours, 66 languages detected. An hour of audio came back in 3.5 minutes for half of the recordings and within 18.0 minutes for nine in ten, measured from the moment the file landed to the finished transcript. Refreshed 2026-10-07; method on how we test.

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