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Amazon Polly

Amazon Polly is a cloud service that converts text into lifelike speech, enabling you to create applications that talk and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Polly supports multiple voices, languages, and audio output formats including neural and generative engines for natural-sounding speech.

1 APIs 1 Capabilities 8 Features
AIMachine LearningSpeech SynthesisText-To-SpeechTTSVoiceSSMLNeural EngineGenerative AI

APIs

Amazon Polly API

The Amazon Polly API enables you to synthesize speech from text (plain text or SSML), manage custom pronunciation lexicons, list available voices across multiple languages and e...

Capabilities

Amazon Polly Text-to-Speech

Workflow capability for converting text to lifelike speech using Amazon Polly. Combines speech synthesis, voice discovery, and lexicon management for developers building voice-e...

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Features

Neural Text-to-Speech

Produce natural-sounding speech using neural network-based text-to-speech technology.

Generative Engine

New generative engine delivers the highest quality, most human-like speech synthesis.

Multiple Voices and Languages

Choose from 60+ voices across 30+ languages including male, female, and child voices.

SSML Support

Use Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) to control pronunciation, volume, pitch, and speech rate.

Custom Lexicons

Create custom pronunciation lexicons to control how specific words and phrases are spoken.

Speech Marks

Generate speech marks metadata to synchronize spoken text with animations or visual highlights.

Asynchronous Synthesis Tasks

Process large text bodies asynchronously with S3 output for long-form content.

Multiple Audio Formats

Output audio in MP3, OGG, PCM, and JSON (speech marks) formats.

Use Cases

Voice Assistants

Build conversational interfaces that speak responses to users.

Accessibility Features

Add text-to-speech reading to applications for visually impaired users.

Podcast and Audio Content

Convert written articles and content into audio podcasts automatically.

E-Learning Narration

Add spoken narration to educational courses and training materials.

Call Center IVR

Create interactive voice response systems with natural-sounding speech.

Language Learning Apps

Provide native-speaker pronunciation examples for language education.

Integrations

Amazon S3

Store synthesized speech output from asynchronous synthesis tasks in S3 buckets.

Amazon Lex

Combine Polly speech synthesis with Lex conversational AI for voice chatbots.

AWS Lambda

Trigger speech synthesis from Lambda functions for event-driven voice applications.

Amazon Transcribe

Pair Polly text-to-speech with Transcribe speech-to-text for round-trip voice applications.

Amazon Connect

Power Amazon Connect contact center voice responses with Polly neural speech.

Semantic Vocabularies

Amazon Polly Context

16 classes · 36 properties

JSON-LD

API Governance Rules

Amazon Polly API Rules

22 rules · 12 errors 7 warnings 3 info

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