Applying Conversational Interfaces in Applications through Amazon Polly

Speech is the most natural form of communication which is why we have been successful as a species. It would be great to get your products more deeply integrated into your daily lives. There have been some recent advancements in artificial intelligence to give the applications and devices the ability to speak in a manner that’s natural and comfortable for customers.

Amazon Polly is a cloud service that translates text into lifelike speech. It is one among the Amazon artificial intelligence based services in AWS Cloud. Polly provides developers with additional tools to engage with customers. Applications developed using Polly increases engagement and accessibility by targeting customers and business owners. It provides several languages that includes a selection of lifelike voices, so developers can build speech-enabled applications that work in different localities and use the best voice for customers. With Amazon Polly, you only pay for the text you produce. You can also cache and replay Amazon Polly’s generated speech at no additional cost to the Amazon Cloud.

Polly Giving the Power of Speech

Polly has the state of the art text to speech service that has more than forty seven life like voices in twenty languages. The files can be downloaded as an mp3 which can be used for any service or application. Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) is braced for advanced functionality, such as mixed language text. There are lots of language and region options, with a provision for five regional accents in English. There are two different modulations each for Portuguese, Spanish and French.

Polly accepts text from both console and SDK, converts into speech in the cloud and sends it back. The service can be integrated into e-book readers, entertainment apps personal assistants, public announcement systems, or even as an e-learning platform. Polly can handle high volumes of text quickly.

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