Amazon Transcribe now supports streaming transcription in 30 additional languages

Today, we are excited to announce support for 30 additional languages for streaming audio transcriptions bringing the total number of supported languages to 54\. [Amazon Transcribe](https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/) is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. New languages supported with this release include Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic (Gulf), Arabic (Standard), Basque, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, Galician, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish ,Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Somali, Swedish, Tagalog, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Zulu. These new languages expand the coverage of Amazon Transcribe streaming and enable customers to reach a broader global audience. Live streaming transcription is used across industries in contact center applications, broadcast events, meetings captions, and e-learning. For example, contact centers use transcription to remove the need for note taking and improve agent productivity by providing recommendations for next best action. Companies also make their live sports events or real-time meetings more accessible with automatic subtitles. In addition, customers who have a large social media presence use Amazon Transcribe to help moderate content and detect inappropriate speech in user-generated content. Amazon Transcribe real-time streaming is available in the following AWS regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Africa (Cape Town), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), South America (São Paulo), AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). To learn more, visit [Amazon Transcribe documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/what-is.html) or or visit the [AWS console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/).