Duolingo – a popular language learning app – uses Amazon Polly for rendering texts in different languages. “Gannett Co”., – a US media powerhouse that owns USA Today, along with several other regional papers, also uses Polly. “The Globe and Mail” – a popular Canadian news publisher – was among Newscaster early adopters. This service is a popular tool among ‘big name’ news companies, as well as some popular language learning applications. Amazon Polly Newscaster closely mimics natural language patterns, so that media publishers can broadcast the new information and original reporting faster. In total, Amazon Polly supports 29 languages and lets you use different voices in several of them. As of August 2019, Polly can speak in 11 different voices: 3 British accents and 8 American English accents. Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) enables Amazon Polly to rapidly learn the difference in speech styles and imitate those. Polly’s latest add-ons are Newscaster and Neural Text-To-Speech (NTTS). Two New Amazon Polly Features Worth of Your Attention You can get a better sense of costs here. The service has a pay-per-use pricing model (offers a free tier). Comprehensive programming language supportĪmazon Polly supports all popular coding languages included in SDK and AWS Mobile SDK (iOS / Android). Robust APIĪmazon’s APIs are well documented and let you set up integrations in no time. Thus, you can effectively control different speech aspects such as volume, articulation, speed, etc. The service supports various SSML tags and lexicons. You can switch between different voices depending on your needs. Amazon Polly is well-articulated and can help you deliver top-notch voice output to your audiences. What’s Cool about Amazon Polly? Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) functionalityĪmazon Polly supports a dozen different languages and can re-create a wide array of natural-sounding voice timbres. Amazon uses the latest deep learning tech to empower Polly with superior functionality for synthesizing human speech so that it closely resembles the voice of a real human. Originally, launched in 2016, this Text-to-Speech (TTS) tool recently received a host of new features.Īs the name suggests, Amazon Polly can effectively convert any written texts to human speech, allowing users to build voice-enabled products, apps, and services. 
Amazon Polly is one of the newer add-ons to the AWS cloud services portfolio.
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