Author: Esther Lee

AWS is excited to announce that The Washington Post is integrating Amazon Polly to provide their readers with audio access to stories across The Post’s entire spectrum of web and mobile platforms, starting with technology stories. Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories […]

Natural conversations often include pauses and interruptions. During customer service calls, a caller may ask to pause the conversation or hold the line while they look up the necessary information before continuing to answer a question. For example, callers often need time to retrieve credit card details when making bill payments. Interruptions are also common. […]

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Today, we’re excited to launch Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese language support for Amazon Transcribe streaming. To deliver streaming transcriptions with low latency for these languages, we’re also announcing availability of Amazon Transcribe streaming in […]

¡Amazon Lex lanza soporte para español para América Latina! Amazon Lex startet auf Deutsch! Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Starting today, Amazon Lex supports Latin American Spanish and German. Now you can easily create virtual agents, conversational IVR systems, self-service chatbots, or application bots […]

At AWS, our mission is to enable developers and businesses with no prior machine learning (ML) expertise to easily build sophisticated, scalable, ML-powered applications with our AI services. Today, we’re excited to announce that Amazon Lex and Amazon Polly are expanding language support. You can build ML-powered applications that fit the language preferences of your […]

Amazon Lex now provides the express testing capability on the AWS Management Console to expedite building your chatbot. You can start testing your bot soon after you initiate the build process without having to wait for the entire build to complete. You can use the new testing option to check the basic interaction elements such […]