Amazon Polly provides several API operations that you can easily integrate with your existing applications. For a list of supported operations, see Actions.
You can perform almost all of the same operations on the Amazon Polly console and the AWS CLI. However, you can't listen to synthesized speech on the AWS CLI. To work with audio on the AWS CLI, save your text to a file. Then open the file in an audio application of your choice.
You can use either of the following options:
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AWS SDKs – When using the SDKs, your requests to Amazon Polly are automatically signed and authenticated using the credentials you provide. This is the recommended choice for building your applications.
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AWS CLI – You can use the AWS CLI to use Amazon Polly without writing any code.
Before you use Amazon Polly for the first time, you must sign up for AWS. When you
sign up for Amazon Web Services (AWS), your AWS account is automatically signed up for all
services in AWS, including Amazon Polly. You're charged only for the services and resources
that you use. If you're a new AWS customer, you can get started with Amazon Polly with no
charge. For more information, see AWS Free Usage
Tier
The following sections describe how to get started using Amazon Polly.
