Amazon Polly Documentation

Amazon Polly provides an API that enables you to integrate speech synthesis into your application. You send the text you want converted into speech to the Amazon Polly API, and Amazon Polly returns the audio stream to your application so your application can begin streaming it directly or store it in a standard audio file format. 

Amazon Polly offers many lifelike voices and support for a variety of languages, so you can select the ideal voice and distribute your speech-enabled applications in many countries. 

Amazon Polly allows you to request an additional stream of metadata that provides information about when particular sentences, words and sounds are being pronounced. Using this metadata stream alongside the synthesized speech audio stream, you can build your applications with an enhanced visual experience, such as speech-synchronized facial animation or karaoke-style word highlighting.

Amazon Polly is designed to allow you to stream information through your application to users in near real time. You can also choose from various sampling rates to optimize bandwidth and audio quality for your application.

Amazon Polly supports markup language for speech synthesis applications, allowing you to modify phrasing, emphasis, and intonation. Amazon Polly also offers additional options, such as the ability to make certain voices speak in a Newscaster speaking style. 

Amazon Polly enables you to adjust the speech rate based on a maximum allotted amount of time you define. This is beneficial for many use cases, especially when it comes to localization.

With Amazon Polly’s custom lexicons, or vocabularies, you can modify the pronunciation of particular words, such as company names, acronyms, foreign words and neologisms. 

Brand Voice is a custom engagement where you can work with the Amazon Polly team to build a Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voice for the exclusive use of your organization. Brand Voice allows you to differentiate your products and applications with a unique vocal identity in a wide variety of use cases. We work with you throughout the process to identify the persona, identify an actor or actress and record their speech, and build and train a model to produce the voice. The voice is then made available to your AWS account ID(s).

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