Submitting a file to Amazon Transcribe
You can use the Amazon Transcribe service to generate transcripts of audio or video files you upload through Brightspot.
To submit a file to Amazon Transcribe:
- To submit an audio file, do the following (otherwise skip to step 2):
- In Brightspot, create a new audio file from a file in .mp3, .wav, or .flac format. (For more information, see Audio File.)
- In the content edit form, from the Provider list, select AWS Transcribe.
- Under Items, click Add Audio File.Submitting an audio file to AWS Transcribe
- Skip to step 3.
- To submit a video file, do the following:
- In Brightspot, create a new video file from a file in .mp4 or .mov format. (For more information, see Video.)
- Under Items, click Add Video File, then select one of the following options:
- Select New Upload, and navigate to a file on your laptop.
- Select New URL, and paste the URL of a file.
- If you want to use transcription settings different from the default, do the following:
- Toward the right of the widget, select > Advanced.
Expand Transcribe, and select one of the transcription settings.
AWS Transcribe settings
- Complete the remaining fields in the content edit form.
- Complete your site's workflow and publish the asset.
Brightspot sends the file to Amazon Transcribe for transcription, and receives the transcript a few minutes later. You can view the transcription in the asset's Transcription cluster.


For information about viewing a transcript, see Viewing and adding transcripts.
When editors search for assets using keywords, Brightspot includes in the search results those assets whose transcripts include the keywords. For example, if you have a transcription of a podcast about modular content, editors searching for the term modular
, content
, and reuse
see the podcast in the search results.
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