Category: Amazon Polly

Today, the Amazon Polly team is pleased to announce the release of a new Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) feature that allows developers to modify the timbre of any Text-to-Speech (TTS) voice. This is a compelling feature for customers who want to customize an existing voice in the Amazon Polly portfolio to make it sound […]

Text-to-speech technology can turn any digital text into a multimedia experience, so people can listen to news, blog articles, or even a PDF document, while multitasking or on-the-go. With Amazon Polly, you can convert your RSS feed or email, and store the synthesized speech in the form of audio files. Currently, the Amazon Polly console […]

Amazon Polly is an AWS service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the expansion to the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, as well as the release of two new Text-to-Speech voices. We are pleased to present Takumi, a new Japanese male voice, and Matthew, a new US English male voice. […]

This is a guest blog post by Siva K. Syamala, Senior Developer from Y-cam Solutions. In their own words, “Y-cam is a provider of high quality security video solutions, our vision is to make smart home security easy and accessible to all.” Home security is a very important constituent in home automation and the use […]

This is a guest post by Damian Dutton, CEO and Founder of Beeliked. Beeliked is, in their own words, “a digital marketing platform offering a wide range of campaigns to help brands engage with their existing audiences and reach new customers through the viral and social nature of the contests and games.” To support the […]

Listen to this post Voiced by Amazon Polly This is a guest post by Yiannis Philipopoulos, a Software Developer at Bandwidth. In Yiannis’ words: “Bandwidth’s solutions are shaping the future of how we connect with voice and messaging for mobile apps and large-scale, enterprise-level solutions. At the core of Bandwidth’s business-grade Communications Platform as a […]

This is a guest post by Michael Wray, senior software architect at Inhealthcare. Founded in 2012, Inhealthcare has created a digital infrastructure which supports remote home monitoring for the entire UK population. Listen to this post Voiced by Amazon Polly   With an aging population that continues to grow, healthcare is being changed forever. Are […]

Listen to this post Voiced by Amazon Polly Just as Dan Brown has captivated millions of readers through countless plot twists and turns, the launch of his new novel, Origin, will lead you along an inspired journey that guarantees to speak to you and draw you in. Literally. The 2003 best-selling author of The Da […]

Listen to this post Voiced by Amazon Polly This is a guest post by André Kenji Horie, a software engineer on Duolingo’s Learning Team. In their own words, “Duolingo is the most popular language-learning platform and the most downloaded education app in the world, with more than 170 million users.” When teaching a foreign language, […]

Update: On 17 JUL 2018, Amazon Polly released Asynchronous Synthesis, a new feature that enables you to process up to 100,000 characters of text at a time using asynchronous requests. Read this article for details: Amazon Polly Update – Time-Driven Prosody and Asynchronous Synthesis. Amazon Polly, one of AWS’s first AI services, turns text into lifelike […]