Azure Media Services now supports live transcription in preview

Azure Media Services provides a [platform](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/media-services/latest/live-streaming-overview) which you can use to ingest, transcode, and dynamically package and encrypt your live video for delivery via industry-standard protocols such as HLS and MPEG-DASH. Live transcriptions is a new feature in the v3 APIs, wherein you can enhance the streams delivered to your viewers with machine-generated text that is transcribed from spoken words in the audio feed. When you publish your live stream using the HLS or MPEG-DASH streaming protocols, then along with video and audio, the service will also deliver the transcribed text in protocol-compliant fragments. You can then play back this video, audio and text stream using a new build (version 2.3.3 or later) of [Azure Media Player](https://amp.azure.net/libs/amp/latest/docs/index.html). The transcription relies on the [Speech-To-Text](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/speech-to-text) feature of Cognitive Services. ## Frequently asked questions * What does the preview support? The feature is available in West US 2, and supports English. For further detail, please refer to this [document](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/media-services/latest/live-transcription#known-issues). * How can I start using this feature? You can create an Azure Media Service account in West US 2, and build an application using our preview REST APIs, described in the [Media Services v3 OpenAPI Specification](https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/blob/master/specification/mediaservices/resource-manager/Microsoft.Media/preview/2019-05-01-preview/streamingservice.json) document. CLI, PowerShell or SDKs are not yet supported for this preview. [Learn more](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/media-services/latest/live-transcription) * Media Services * Video Indexer * Features * Services * [ Media Services](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/media-services/)