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What Is Amazon Polly?

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Amazon Polly is a cloud service that converts text into lifelike speech. You can use Amazon Polly to develop applications that increase engagement and accessibility. Amazon Polly supports multiple languages and includes a variety of lifelike voices. With Amazon Polly, you can build speech-enabled applications that work in multiple locations and use the ideal voice for your customers. Also, you only pay for the text you synthesize. You can also cache and replay Amazon Polly’s generated speech at no additional cost.

Amazon Polly offers many voice options, including generative, long-form, neural, and standard text-to-speech (TTS) options. These voices deliver ground-breaking improvements in speech quality using new machine learning technology to offer the most natural and human-like text-to-speech voices possible. Neural TTS technology also supports a Newscaster speaking style, tailored to news narration use cases.

Common use cases for Amazon Polly include, but are not limited to: mobile applications such as newsreaders, games, eLearning platforms, accessibility applications for visually impaired people, and the rapidly growing segment of Internet of Things (IoT).

Amazon Polly is certified for use with regulated workloads for HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996), and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

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