Amazon Transcribe Custom Vocabulary

Question

I am creating a custom vocabulary in Amazon Transcribe and readind the Amazon Transcribe
Developer Guide. In the documentation there is a sintax example to create a new custom vocabulary.

Example: ( replace [TAB] to tab and remove the spaces between the columns

Los-Angeles[TAB][TAB]l # s æ n # # l # s[TAB]Los Angeles
Eva-Maria [TAB]ay-va-ma-ree-ah[TAB][TAB]
A.B.C.-s[TAB]ay-bee-sees[TAB]ABCs
Amazon-dot-com[TAB][TAB][TAB]Amazon.com
C.L.I.[TAB][TAB]s # # l a#[TAB]CLI
Andorra-la-Vella[TAB]ann-do-rah-la-bay-ah[TAB][TAB]Andorra la Vella
Dynamo-D.B.[TAB][TAB][TAB]DynamoDB

When i try to create the vocabulary with a example, the AWS gives me an error:

Failure reason
The vocabulary that you’re trying to create contains invalid characters or incorrectly formatted terms. See the developer guide for more information.

I tried many times but it didn't work.

The only a unique way that worked was when i did as bellow:

Los-Angeles[TAB][TAB][TAB]
Eva-Maria[TAB][TAB][TAB]
A.B.C.-s[TAB][TAB][TAB]
Amazon-dot-com[TAB][TAB][TAB]
C.L.I.[TAB][TAB][TAB]
Andorra-la-Vella[TAB][TAB][TAB]
Dynamo-D.B.[TAB][TAB][TAB]

Without use the columns SoundsLike, IPA, DisplayAs

Please, someone help me.

Answer

Hey!
[As stated on the documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/custom-vocabulary-create-table.html) *"You must save your table as a text (*.txt) file and upload it into an Amazon S3 bucket before you can convert it into a useable vocabulary." *
Once you do this, the example provided should work! Remember also: *"Only use spaces within the IPA and DisplayAs columns. Separate columns with a TAB character. Do not use spaces to separate columns; doing so results in an error."*

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