# Document history for Amazon Transcribe + **Latest documentation update:** 13 November 2023 The following table describes important changes in each release of Amazon Transcribe. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed. | Change | Description | Date | | --- |--- |--- | | [Feature Update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/pii-redaction-batch.html) | PII redaction for batch transcription jobs now supports additional entity types: `AGE`, `AWS_ACCESS_KEY`, `AWS_SECRET_KEY`, `CA_HEALTH_NUMBER`, `CA_SOCIAL_INSURANCE_NUMBER`, `DATE_TIME`, `DRIVER_ID`, `INTERNATIONAL_BANK_ACCOUNT_NUMBER`, `IP_ADDRESS`, `LICENSE_PLATE`, `MAC_ADDRESS`, `PASSPORT_NUMBER`, `PASSWORD`, `SWIFT_CODE`, `URL`, `US_INDIVIDUAL_TAX_IDENTIFICATION_NUMBER`, `USERNAME`, and `VEHICLE_IDENTIFICATION_NUMBER`. | May 22, 2026 | | [Feature Update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/pii-redaction-batch.html) | PII redaction for batch transcription jobs now supports additional languages: French (`fr-FR`), Canadian French (`fr-CA`), German (`de-DE`), Swiss German (`de-CH`), Italian (`it-IT`), Portuguese (`pt-PT`), and Brazilian Portuguese (`pt-BR`). | May 1, 2026 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/health-scribe-streaming.html) | AWS HealthScribe now supports new templates for the clinical note summary: BIRP, SIRP, DAP, BH\_SOAP, and PH\_SOAP. For more information, see [AWS HealthScribe Clinical Documentation file](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/health-scribe-insights.html). | May 30, 2025 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/health-scribe-streaming.html) | AWS HealthScribe now supports a GIRPP template for the clinical note summary. For more information, see [AWS HealthScribe Clinical Documentation file](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/health-scribe-insights.html). | February 4, 2025 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/health-scribe-streaming.html) | AWS HealthScribe now supports streaming for transcribing medical conversations in real time. | January 29, 2025 | | [Section Update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/API_StartTranscriptionJob.html) | Updating ar-SA language support for 8000 frequency. | January 16, 2025 | | [Section Update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/API_CallAnalyticsJobSettings.html) | Updating ar-SA language support for 8000 frequency. | January 16, 2025 | | [Section Update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/supported-languages.html) | Updating the supported language section with unsupported language code that we do not support in AWS GovCloud (US) (US-West, us-gov-west-1), AWS GovCloud (US) (US-East, us-gov-east-1), or Africa (Cape Town, af-south-1) regions. | January 14, 2025 | | [Section Update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/diarization.html) | Extend Transcribe Batch json output with new field called "audio\_segments". | July 15, 2024 | | [Feature Update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/diarization.html) | Update Max Speakers in diarization to be 30 instead of 10. | May 10, 2024 | | [Section Update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/tca-output-batch.html#tca-output-summarization-batch) | Updates to generative call summarization and add error output details. | April 30, 2024 | | [Section Update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/custom-vocabulary-create-table.html) | Updates on custom vocabulary columns - IPA and SoundsLike. | April 30, 2024 | | [Feature Update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/call-analytics-batch.html#tca-summarization-batch) | Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics now supports generative call summarization. | November 29, 2023 | | [Section Update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/tca-output-batch.html) | Update new PII redaction and Language Identification output format. | November 13, 2023 | | [Feature Update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/diarization.html) | Diarization can now be combined with channel identification. | March 6, 2023 | | [Feature Update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/channel-id.html) | Channel identification can now be combined with diarization. | March 6, 2023 | | [Section Update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/security-iam.html) | IAM best practices have been updated. | February 13, 2023 | | [New languages](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/supported-languages.html) | Amazon Transcribe now supports Vietnamese and Swedish. | December 6, 2022 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/call-analytics-streaming.html) | Amazon Transcribe now supports real-time Call Analytics. | November 28, 2022 | | [Feature Update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/pii-redaction-stream.html) | Streaming redaction and identification is now available with Hindi and Thai. | November 11, 2022 | | [Section Update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/pii-redaction-stream.html) | New PII categories are available for streaming redaction and identification. | September 14, 2022 | | [Section Update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/custom-language-models.html) | The custom language model section has been revised. | June 18, 2022 | | [Section Update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/lang-id-batch.html) | Batch language identification can now identify multiple languages per audio file. | May 31, 2022 | | [Guide Update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html) | The Amazon Transcribe API Reference is now a standalone guide. | April 1, 2022 | | [New chapter](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/feature-matrix.html) | A new comparison table for Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Transcribe Medical, and Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics is included. | March 21, 2022 | | [New chapter](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/service_code_examples.html) | A new SDK code examples chapter is included. | March 21, 2022 | | [Feature update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/call-analytics-batch.html) | Call Analytics now provides call summarization. | March 21, 2022 | | [Chapter update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/what-is.html) | The introductory chapter now showcases Amazon Transcribe use cases. | March 21, 2022 | | [Chapter update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/getting-started.html) | The Getting started chapter has been updated to be method-specific. | March 21, 2022 | | [Chapter update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/streaming.html) | The Streaming chapter has been updated and restructured. | March 21, 2022 | | [Feature update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/lang-id-stream.html) | Language identification now supports custom vocabularies and custom vocabulary filters with streaming transcriptions. | March 11, 2022 | | [New event](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/monitoring-events.html) | There is a new event type: Vocabulary events. | February 7, 2022 | | [Section update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/custom-vocabulary.html) | Updates have been made to the custom vocabularies section. | January 20, 2022 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/lang-id-stream.html) | Language identification can now be used with streaming transcriptions. | November 23, 2021 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/auto-lang-id.html) | Language identification can now be used with custom language models, custom vocabularies, vocabulary filtering, and content redaction. | October 29, 2021 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/clm-transcription.html) | Amazon Transcribe now supports custom language models with streaming transcriptions. | October 20, 2021 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/subtitles.html) | Amazon Transcribe can now generate subtitles for your video files. | September 16, 2021 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/pii-redaction.html) | Amazon Transcribe now supports PII redaction and identification for streaming. | September 14, 2021 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/key-management.html#kms-context) | Amazon Transcribe now supports AWS KMS encryption context for an added level of security for your AWS account resources. | September 10, 2021 | | [New languages](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/supported-languages.html) | Amazon Transcribe now supports Afrikaans, Danish, Mandarin Chinese (Traditional), Thai, New Zealand English, and South African English. | August 26, 2021 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/tagging.html) | Amazon Transcribe now supports resource tagging. | August 24, 2021 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/call-analytics.html) | Amazon Transcribe now supports Call Analytics for batch transcription jobs. | August 4, 2021 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/custom-language-models.html) | Amazon Transcribe now supports using custom vocabularies with batch custom language models. | May 12, 2021 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/streaming.html) | Amazon Transcribe now supports partial result stabilization for streaming transcription. | May 11, 2021 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/custom-language-models.html) | Amazon Transcribe now supports Australian English, British English, Hindi, and US Spanish for custom language models. | March 19, 2021 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/how-input.html) | Amazon Transcribe now supports OGG/OPUS and FLAC codecs for streaming audio transcription. | November 24, 2020 | | [New languages](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/what-is.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for Italian and German for streaming audio transcription. | November 4, 2020 | | [AWS Region expansion](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#transcribe_region) | Amazon Transcribe is now available in the Frankfurt (eu-central-1) and London (eu-west-2). | November 4, 2020 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/vpc-interface-endpoints.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for interface VPC endpoints in batch transcription. | October 9, 2020 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/channel-id.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for channel identification in streaming. | September 17, 2020 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/auto-lang-id.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for automatic language identification in batch transcription. | September 15, 2020 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/diarization-streaming.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for speaker partitioning in streaming. | August 19, 2020 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/custom-language-models.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for custom language models. | August 5, 2020 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/vpc-interface-endpoints.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for interface VPC endpoints in streaming. | June 26, 2020 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/streaming-filter-unwanted.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for vocabulary filtering in streaming. | May 20, 2020 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/pii-redaction.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for automatically redacting personally identifiable information. | February 26, 2020 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/custom-vocabulary-filter.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for creating a custom vocabulary of words to filter from a transcription. | December 20, 2019 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/job-queueing.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for queueing transcription jobs. | December 19, 2019 | | [New languages](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/what-is.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for Gulf Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Malay, Swiss German, Telugu, and Turkish. | November 21, 2019 | | [AWS Region expansion](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#transcribe_region) | Amazon Transcribe is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) (ap-northeast-1). | November 21, 2019 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/how-alternatives.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for alternative transcriptions. | November 20, 2019 | | [New languages](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/what-is.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for Dutch, Farsi, Indonesian, Irish English, Portuguese, Scottish English, Tamil, and Welsh English. | November 12, 2019 | | [New language](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/what-is.html) | Amazon Transcribe now supports streaming transcription for Australian English (en-AU). | October 25, 2019 | | [AWS Region expansion](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#transcribe_region) | Amazon Transcribe is now available in the China (Beijing) (cn-north-1) and China (Ningxia) (cn-northwest-1). | October 9, 2019 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/API_StartTranscriptionJob.html#transcribe-StartTranscriptionJob-request-OutputEncryptionKMSKeyId) | Amazon Transcribe allows you to provide your own KMS key to encrypt your transcription output files. For more information, see the [OutputEncryptionKMSKeyId](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/API_StartTranscriptionJob.html#transcribe-StartTranscriptionJob-request-OutputEncryptionKMSKeyId) parameter of the [StartStreamTranscription](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/API_StartTranscriptionJob.html) API. | September 24, 2019 | | [New languages](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/what-is.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for Chinese (Mandarin), Simplified, Mainland China and Russian. | August 23, 2019 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/streaming.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for streaming audio transcription using the WebSocket protocol. | July 19, 2019 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/monitoring-transcribe-cloud-trail.html) | AWS CloudTrail now records events for the [StartStreamTranscription](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/API_streaming_StartStreamTranscription.html) API. | July 19, 2019 | | [AWS Region expansion](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#transcribe_region) | Amazon Transcribe is now available in the US West (N. California) (us-west-1). | June 27, 2019 | | [New language](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/what-is.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for Modern Standard Arabic. | May 28, 2019 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/how-numbers.html) | Amazon Transcribe now transcribes numeric words into numbers for US English. For example, "forty-two" is transcribed as "42". | May 23, 2019 | | [New language](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/what-is.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for Hindi and Indian English. | May 15, 2019 | | [New SDK](https://sdk.amazonaws.com/cpp/api/LATEST/namespace_aws_1_1_transcribe_streaming_service.html) | The AWS SDK for C\+\+ now supports Amazon Transcribe. | May 8, 2019 | | [New language](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/what-is.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for Spanish. | April 19, 2019 | | [AWS Region expansion](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#transcribe_region) | Amazon Transcribe is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) (eu-central-1) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2). | April 18, 2019 | | [New language](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/what-is.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for streaming transcription in British English, French, and Canadian French. | April 5, 2019 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-ruby/v3/api/Aws/TranscribeService.html) | The AWS SDK for Ruby V3 now supports Amazon Transcribe | March 25, 2019 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/custom-vocabulary.html) | Amazon Transcribe allows custom vocabularies, which are lists of specific words that you want Amazon Transcribe to recognize in your audio input. | March 25, 2019 | | [New languages](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/what-is.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for German and Korean. | March 22, 2019 | | [New language](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/what-is.html) | Amazon Transcribe now supports streaming transcription for US Spanish (es-US). | February 7, 2019 | | [AWS Region expansion](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#transcribe_region) | Amazon Transcribe is now available in the South America (São Paulo) (sa-east-1). | February 7, 2019 | | [AWS Region expansion](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#transcribe_region) | Amazon Transcribe is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1), Asia Pacific (Singapore) (ap-southeast-1), EU (London) (eu-west-2), and EU (Paris) (eu-west3). | January 24, 2019 | | [New languages](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/what-is.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for French, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese. | December 20, 2018 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/streaming.html) | Amazon Transcribe now supports transcription of audio streams. | November 19, 2018 | | [New languages](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/what-is.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for Australian English, British English, and Canadian French. | November 15, 2018 | | [AWS Region expansion](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#transcribe_region) | Amazon Transcribe is now available in Canada (Central) (ca-central-1) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) (ap-southeast-2). | July 17, 2018 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/APIReference/API_TranscriptionJobSummary.html) | You can now specify your own location to store the output from a transcription job. | July 11, 2018 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/monitoring-transcribe.html) | Added AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch Events integration. | June 28, 2018 | | [New feature](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/custom-vocabulary.html) | Amazon Transcribe adds support for custom vocabularies. | April 4, 2018 | | [New guide](#doc-history) | This is the first release of the *Amazon Transcribe Developer Guide*. | November 29, 2017 |