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Amazon AWS / Polly TextToSpeech
About
Polly from Amazon
Website: https://aws.amazon.com/polly
Definition
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Polly lets you create applications that talk, enabling you to build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Polly is an Amazon AI service that uses advanced deep learning technologies to synthesize speech that sounds like a human voice. Polly includes 47 lifelike voices spread across 24 languages, so you can select the ideal voice and build speech-enabled applications that work in many different countries.
Get started
Create your account :
Configuration
You must get AWS Client command line client available from /usr/bin/aws :
On debian Jessie (8) you can try this :
apt-get install python-pip python-yaml pip install awscli --upgrade ln -s /usr/local/bin/aws /usr/bin/aws