AWS Machine Learning Blog

Category: Artificial Intelligence

Activity Tracking with a Voice-Enabled Bot on AWS

Listen to this post Voiced by Amazon Polly It’s New Year’s Eve. Your friends and loved ones have gone to the party, but you can’t go just yet because you haven’t figured out how to track the key performance indicators for your New Year’s resolution. You’ve already divided your resolution into categories, and you’ve set […]

Personalizing Videos: BeeLiked uses Amazon Polly to Launch the #DanBrownOrigin campaign, the World’s First Virtual Book Signing

Listen to this post Voiced by Amazon Polly Just as Dan Brown has captivated millions of readers through countless plot twists and turns, the launch of his new novel, Origin, will lead you along an inspired journey that guarantees to speak to you and draw you in. Literally. The 2003 best-selling author of The Da […]

Powering Language Learning on Duolingo with Amazon Polly

Listen to this post Voiced by Amazon Polly This is a guest post by André Kenji Horie, a software engineer on Duolingo’s Learning Team. In their own words, “Duolingo is the most popular language-learning platform and the most downloaded education app in the world, with more than 170 million users.” When teaching a foreign language, […]

Create Audiobooks with Amazon Polly and AWS Batch

Update: On 17 JUL 2018, Amazon Polly released Asynchronous Synthesis, a new feature that enables you to process up to 100,000 characters of text at a time using asynchronous requests. Read this article for details: Amazon Polly Update – Time-Driven Prosody and Asynchronous Synthesis. Amazon Polly, one of AWS’s first AI services, turns text into lifelike […]

Changing Lives with AI: Pollexy (“Polly” + “Lex”), A Special Needs Verbal Assistant

Listen to this post Voiced by Amazon Polly With the emergence of devices like the Amazon Echo and AWS services like Amazon Polly and Amazon Lex, it’s easier to develop integrated voice solutions that can simplify life and make it more enjoyable. In some cases, the resulting innovations can lead to life-changing experiences because the […]

Build your own text-to-speech applications with Amazon Polly

In general, speech synthesis isn’t easy.  You can’t just assume that when an application reads each letter of a sentence the output will make sense. A few common challenges for text-to-speech applications include: Words that are written the same way, but that are pronounced differently: I live in Las Vegas. vs. This presentation broadcasts live […]

AI Tech Talk: How to Get the Most Out of Amazon Polly, a Text-to-Speech Service

Although there are many ways to optimize the speech generated by Amazon Polly‘s text-to-speech voices, new customers may find it challenging to quickly learn how to apply the most effective enhancements in each situation. The objective of this webinar is to educate customers about all of the ways in which they can modify the speech […]