Amazon Polly
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products.
Key Features
- Text-to-Speech (TTS): Converts written text into natural-sounding audio.
- Lifelike Voices: Offers dozens of lifelike voices across a broad set of languages.
- Neural TTS: Produces even more natural and higher quality voices.
- SSML Support: Supports Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) to control pronunciation, volume, pitch, and speed.
- Lexicons: Customize pronunciation of specific words (e.g., company names, acronyms).
Exam Tips
- "Text to Speech": Answer is Polly.
- "Lifelike Voice": Answer is Polly.
- "SSML": Answer is Polly.
Common Use Cases
- E-learning: Reading educational content aloud.
- Accessibility: Reading articles for visually impaired users.
- Telephony: Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems.