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What is Amazon Polly?

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What is Amazon Polly?

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Amazon Polly enables existing applications to speak as a first class feature and creates the opportunity for entirely new categories of speech-enabled products, from mobile apps and cars, to devices and appliances. Amazon Polly includes dozens of lifelike voices and support for multiple languages, so you can select the ideal voice and distribute your speech-enabled applications in many geographies.

What are the most common use cases for this service?

What are the advantages of a cloud-based Text-to-Speech solution over an on-device one?

In which regions is the service available?

How much does Amazon Polly cost?

Does Amazon Polly participate in the AWS Free Tier?

What are the most common use cases for this service?

With Amazon Polly, you can bring your applications to life, by adding life-like speech capabilities. For example, in E-learning and education, you can build applications leveraging Amazon Polly’s Text-to-Speech (TTS) capability to help people with reading disabilities. Amazon Polly can be used to help the blind and visually impaired consume digital content (eBooks, news etc). Amazon Polly can be used in announcement systems in public transportation and industrial control systems for notifications and emergency announcements.

What are the advantages of a cloud-based Text-to-Speech solution over an on-device one?

On-device text-to-speech solutions require significant computing resources, notably CPU power, RAM, and disk space to be available on the device. This can result in higher development cost and higher power consumption on devices such as tablets, smartphones, etc. In contrast, text-to-speech conversion done in the cloud dramatically reduces local resource requirements. This makes it possible to support all of the available languages and voices at the highest possible quality. Moreover, speech corrections and enhancements are instantly available to all end-users and do not require additional updates for all devices. Cloud-based text-to-speech (TTS) is platform independent, so it minimizes development time and effort.

In which regions is the service available?

Please refer to the AWS Regional Services List for all regions supporting Amazon Polly’s Standard voices. Neural voices are supported in the following subset of these regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Africa (Cape Town), EU (London), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland) and AWS GovCloud (US-West).

Does Amazon Polly participate in the AWS Free Tier?

Yes, as part of the AWS Free Usage Tier, you can get started with Amazon Polly for free. Upon sign-up, new Amazon Polly customers can synthesize millions of characters for free each month for the first 12 months. Please see the Amazon Polly Pricing Page for current pricing information.

How do I access the digital product after paying the money?

After processing the request, the password, username, and link to the control panel will be sent via email and via WhatsApp

Is the product a downloadable program?

No, the product is not a downloadable program. It is a cloud-based program that works on any device available on the Internet