Description:
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. Polly’s Text-to-Speech (TTS) service uses advanced deep learning technologies to synthesize natural sounding human speech. With dozens of lifelike voices across a broad set of languages, you can build speech-enabled applications that work in many different countries.
In addition to Standard TTS voices, Amazon Polly offers Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices that deliver advanced improvements in speech quality through a new machine learning approach. Polly’s Neural TTS technology also supports two speaking styles that allow you to better match the delivery style of the speaker to the application: a Newscaster reading style that is tailored to news narration use cases, and a Conversational speaking style that is ideal for two-way communication like telephony applications.
Easy to Set Up:
Simply include your AWS IAM User Access and Secret Access Key and your AWS Bucket Name and you are all set!
Benefits of Amazon Polly:
- Natural sounding voices (Neural TTS)
- Store & redistribute speech
- Real-time streaming
- Customize & control speech output
- Simple-to-Use API
- Optimize Your Streaming Audio
- Adjust Speaking Style, Speech Rate, Pitch, and Loudness
- Synthesize Large Text directly to your S3 Bucket
- Very Low cost
Features of Amazon Polly Text to Speech Converter:
- Support for over 29 Languages
- Support for over 60+ Different Voices
- Various Combination of Voice Effects for Standard Voices
- Various Combination of Voice Effects for Neural Voices
- Support for MP3, OGG & PCM Audio Output Formats
- Instant Stream Capability or Download
- Easy to Customize and Add to your Project
- Fully Responsive with Bootstrap 4
Cost of Running it:
- You can use any hosting platform as you prefer for the application itself
- AWS Account (Free to Open – You will be on Free Tier for the 1st year)
- Amazon S3 Storage Cost (For Data Storage and Data Traffic Out)
- Amazon Polly Cost details listed below:
Installation Instructions:
Only AWS side needs to be setup (Note: Amazon Polly and Amazon S3 are paid services provided by AWS)
- AWS PHP SDK v3 is Required (Already Included into the package) – Setup Link
- AWS IAM User with S3 & Polly Access Policies attached – Setup Link
- Amazon S3 Bucket with Public Access – Setup Link
- Also Listed and Explained with more details in the Documentation
Credits:
- Awesome Select v0.1.2 by Prev Wong
- Flag Icon CSS by Lipis
- Textarea Character Counter by Joberror
- Responsive Audio Player by Osvaldas Valutis
Release Notes – Change Logs:
16.05.2020 - 1.0.5
- Update: Standard Voices character limit increase
- Update: Neural Voices character limit increase
- Update: Direct Keys include simplified
- Update: Documentation
17.03.2020 - 1.0.4
- Update: Support for raw PCM audio stream formats added for Large Text
- Fix: JS bug fixes
30.01.2020 - 1.0.3
- Update: Support for Neural TTS added, provides high quality life like voices
- Update: Support for Large Text added, output results are directly sent to Amazon S3
- Update: Additional voice effects are added for Neural TTS
- Update: Additional voice effects are added for Standard TTS
- Fix: Minor bug fixes
16.11.2019 - 1.0.2
- Update: AWS PHP SDK v3 is now included with the package
- Update: App can now run directly with only IAM Access and Secret Access Keys
- Update: Additional voice effects are added
11.11.2019 - 1.0.1
- Fix: Audio Player play/pause fix during direct play
- Fix: Additional Settings dropdown sign fix
29.10.2019 - 1.0.0
- Initial Release
