# Amazon — Speaker-labeled transcription with WhisperX on SageMaker AI

- Company: Amazon (amazon.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-24T16:20:12+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/speaker-labeled-transcription-with-whisperx-on-sagemaker-ai/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/13732-speaker-labeled-transcription-with-whisperx-on-sagemaker-ai
- Subject: Bedrock / Nova
- Models affected: WhisperX

Amazon released a WhisperX Deep Learning Container (DLC) for SageMaker AI that packages Whisper, alignment models, and diarization weights into a GPU-ready image. The container can be deployed to real-time or asynchronous endpoints without building a custom image, supporting per-word timestamps and speaker labels for use cases like contact centers, meetings, and media captioning.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/speaker-labeled-transcription-with-whisperx-on-sagemaker-ai/:

> The AWS WhisperX Deep Learning Container (DLC) packages all of this into a GPU-ready image. You deploy it to an Amazon SageMaker AI real-time or asynchronous endpoint without building a custom image.

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