Amazon Polly: Teach your projects talk
Voice output can take your project to a whole new level. Are you are a maker building a new home automation tool or a professional developer working on a commercial gadget? Follow this tutorial to learn how to add a natural voice to your project with very little effort!
TTS = Text To Speech
Text To Speech systems are nothing new. The first time I heard a computer speak was sometimes in the last century on my Commodore C64. It was a hardly intelligible, monotonic, robotic voice. Yet so exciting!!
Fast forward to 2019 and listen to the modern, state of the art TTS systems. Alexa, Siri, Cortana and others — they all sound so natural! And they can all be easily mistaken for real human speakers. Wouldn’t it be nice to have your Raspberry Pi project talk to you like that?
Meet AWS Polly
Amazon’s cloud platform AWS offers many easy to use cloud-based solutions for various tasks. From database and computing services, through IoT broker and various message queues, right up to a ready to use image recognition. And — the topic of the today’s article — state of the art Text To Speech service AWS Polly.
AWS Polly — the voice behind Amazon Alexa — at the moment supports 57 different voices across 19 languages. You can choose…
