Amazon Polly

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Amazon Polly
Initial releaseNovember 29, 2016
Available in41 languages
Type Speech synthesis
Website aws.amazon.com/polly/

Amazon Polly is a cloud service by Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, that converts text into spoken audio. [1] [2] [3] It allows developers to create speech-enabled applications and products. [4] It was launched in November 2016 [5] [6] [7] and (as of December 2024) includes 100+ voices across 41 language variants, [8] some of which are Neural Text-to-Speech voices of higher quality. Users include Duolingo, a language education platform. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Dignan, Larry (September 20, 2018). "Amazon's slew of new Echo, Alexa devices obscures new developer tools, features". ZDNet.
  2. ↑ "Amazon Polly". TechTarget . Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  3. ↑ Perez, Sarah (February 8, 2018). "Amazon launches a Polly WordPress plugin that turns blog posts into audio, including podcasts". TechCrunch.
  4. ↑ Alawadhi, Neha (August 29, 2018). "AWS announces addition of Hindi language support for Amazon Polly". moneycontrol.com.
  5. ↑ "AWS makes Amazon Polly talk in Hindi in addition to Indian English". Digit. August 29, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Amazon announces three new AI services called Lex, Polly and recognition for AWS". Firstpost.com. December 1, 2016.
  7. ↑ Lardinois, Frederic (November 30, 2016). "Amazon launches Amazon AI to bring its machine learning smarts to developers". TechCrunch.
  8. ↑ "Languages Supported by Amazon Polly - Amazon Polly". docs.aws.amazon.com. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
  9. ↑ "Powering Language Learning on Duolingo with Amazon Polly". 12 May 2017.