AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Explanation

Amazon Transcribe is the correct answer because it is an AWS service specifically designed for automatic speech recognition (ASR) that converts speech to text. One of its key features is the ability to generate timestamps for each word in the audio file, which is essential for applications like:

• Captioning and subtitling: Knowing exactly when each word occurs in the audio

• Audio analysis: Analyzing speech patterns and timing

• Content search: Enabling users to search for specific words and jump to their exact location in the audio

• Accessibility: Creating synchronized transcripts for hearing-impaired users

Why the other options are incorrect:

• Amazon Polly: This is a text-to-speech service that converts text into lifelike speech. It does not analyze audio files or generate timestamps.

• Amazon Rekognition: This is a computer vision service for image and video analysis. It can recognize objects, people, text, scenes, and activities in images and videos, but not audio.

• Amazon Translate: This is a neural machine translation service that translates text between languages. It does not process audio files or generate timestamps.

Amazon Transcribe's timestamp feature is particularly useful for media production, education, customer service analytics, and any application where precise timing information for spoken words is required.