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Category: Amazon Polly

Highlight text as it’s being spoken using Amazon Polly

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. It enables the development of a whole class of applications that can convert text into speech in multiple languages. This service can be used by chatbots, audio books, and other text-to-speech applications in conjunction with other AWS AI or machine learning (ML) services. For […]

Create powerful self-service experiences with Amazon Lex on Talkdesk CX Cloud contact center

This blog post is co-written with Bruno Mateus, Jonathan Diedrich and Crispim Tribuna at Talkdesk. Contact centers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies to build a personalized customer experience and deliver effective self-service support through conversational bots. This is the first of a two-part series dedicated to the integration of […]

Read webpages and highlight content using Amazon Polly

Read webpages and highlight content using Amazon Polly

In this post, we demonstrate how to use Amazon Polly—a leading cloud service that converts text into lifelike speech—to read the content of a webpage and highlight the content as it’s being read. Adding audio playback to a webpage improves the accessibility and visitor experience of the page. Audio-enhanced content is more impactful and memorable, […]

Localize content into multiple languages using AWS machine learning services

Over the last few years, online education platforms have seen an increase in adoption of and an uptick in demand for video-based learnings because it offers an effective medium to engage learners. To expand to international markets and address a culturally and linguistically diverse population, businesses are also looking at diversifying their learning offerings by […]

Generate synchronized closed captions and audio using the Amazon Polly subtitle generator

Amazon Polly, an AI generated text-to-speech service, enables you to automate and scale your interactive voice solutions, helping to improve productivity and reduce costs. As our customers continue to use Amazon Polly for its rich set of features and ease of use, we have observed a demand for the ability to simultaneously generate synchronized audio […]

Break through language barriers with Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Translate, and Amazon Polly

Imagine a surgeon taking video calls with patients across the globe without the need of a human translator. What if a fledgling startup could easily expand their product across borders and into new geographical markets by offering fluid, accurate, multilingual customer support and sales, all without the need of a live human translator? What happens […]

Create audio for content in multiple languages with the same TTS voice persona in Amazon Polly

Amazon Polly is a leading cloud-based service that converts text into lifelike speech. Following the adoption of Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS), we have continuously expanded our portfolio of available voices in order to provide a wide selection of distinct speakers in supported languages. Today, we are pleased to announce four new additions: Pedro speaking US Spanish, […]

Customize pronunciations using Amazon Polly

Amazon Polly breathes life into text by converting it into lifelike speech. This empowers developers and businesses to create applications that can converse in real time, thereby offering an enhanced interactive experience. Text-to-speech (TTS) in Amazon Polly supports a variety of languages and locales, which enables you to perform TTS conversion according to your preferences. […]

Use AWS AI and ML services to foster accessibility and inclusion of people with a visual or communication impairment

AWS offers a broad set of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services, including a suite of pre-trained, ready-to-use services for developers with no prior ML experience. In this post, we demonstrate how to use such services to build an application that fosters the inclusion of people with a visual or communication impairment, which […]

How eMagazines utilizes Amazon Polly to voice articles for school-aged kids

This is a guest post by Andrew Degenholtz, CEO and Founder of eMagazines, the parent company of ReadAlong.ai. eMagazines’ technology seamlessly transforms print products into premium digital and audio experiences. Leveraging Amazon technology, ReadAlong.ai offers a simple, turn-key way for publishers to add audio to their websites with a single line of code. eMagazines supports […]