Amazon Transcribe Medical
HIPAA-eligible medical-specialty ASR from AWS for clinical conversations and dictation.
HIPAA-eligible medical-specialty ASR from AWS for clinical conversations and dictation.
Best for scribes, clinical documentation pipelines, telehealth platforms needing HIPAA-eligible medical vocabulary. Pricing: from $0.075/min.
What it is
Amazon Transcribe Medical is a HIPAA-eligible variant of Amazon Transcribe tuned for medical speech, supporting both real-time (Conversation, Dictation) and batch modes. It can be invoked alongside the standard Transcribe API but produces specialty-tuned vocabularies. Channel identification supports separating clinician and patient channels. Available with a signed AWS BAA. Pricing is higher than the general Transcribe service to reflect the medical model. English (US) only at last public docs check; specialties cover primary care, cardiology, neurology, oncology, radiology, and urology.
Watch out for: English (US) only at last check; medical specialties limited (Primary Care, Cardiology, Neurology, Oncology, Radiology, Urology).
Install / use
aws transcribe start-medical-transcription-job ...Features
| Speaker diarization | Yes |
| Word-level timestamps | Yes |
| Streaming / real-time | Yes |
| Languages supported | 1 |
| HIPAA eligible | Yes |
Amazon Transcribe Medical vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Amazon Transcribe Medical | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Transcription APIs | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | from $0.075/min | free beta |
| Speaker diarization | Yes | Yes |
| Word timestamps | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | No |
| Languages | 1 | 99 |
| Platforms | API | Web, API, MCP |
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