Amazon Transcribe sucks

Tact Labs
2 min readMay 24, 2020

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We just wanted to automate our Python intern hiring process by using Amazon transcribe ML tool.

At first, we thought it’s gonna be ground-breaking and we could do most of our hiring process by getting text and funnel to our in-house tech-scorer algorithm.

However, when we recorded the audio and funneled to Amazon Transcribe. We got really shocked when we got the result.

Here is the original audio:

This is what we have got from Amazon Transcribe.

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Obviously, you could see there is no match at all. Finally, we have concluded that Amazon Transcribe is not the right way to hire our Python Interns.

We are working on our in-house speech2text algorithms with the help of open-source code. We will be publishing the details soon.

Note: If you find that we are missing any input parameters to Amazon Transcribe, please let us know. We are happy to learn from our mistakes.

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