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Set Up Call Transcription with Amazon Transcribe

To ensure an optimal experience, verify the region of your Amazon Transcribe data center and the service quota for concurrent transcription jobs for Amazon Transcribe.
Available in: Lightning Experience
Available in: Enterprise and Unlimited Editions
Available in: Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Government Cloud as an add-on license. Government Cloud is supported only on Service Cloud Voice with Amazon Connect and Service Cloud Voice with Partner Telephony from Amazon Connect.

Ease of Implementation Medium
Estimated Time to Implement 20 minutes

By default, the region for the transcription Lambda function is set to us-west-2, which is the Amazon Transcribe data center in Oregon. For best performance, select a region where Amazon Transcribe is available that is closest to where your contact center is located geographically. For information about AWS regions that support Amazon Connect, see the AWS Regional Services topic in the AWS documentation.

If your organization streams many call transcriptions at the same time, ask AWS to increase the default service quota for concurrent transcription jobs for Amazon Transcribe. See Increase Amazon Service Quota.