Implementing Text-to-Speech with Amazon Polly

Welcome to this lesson on leveraging Amazon Polly, a cloud-based text-to-speech service, to create more accessible, engaging, and natural-sounding speech experiences for your applications, websites, and services. 

Learning Objectives 

By the end of this lesson, you will understand text-to-speech technology, including: 

• The capabilities and benefits of using text-to-speech in applications and services 

• How Amazon Polly, a cloud-based text-to-speech service, can be integrated and utilized 

• The different voice types and features offered by Amazon Polly, such as neural, long-form, and generative voices 

• How to use SSML to customize the speech output 

• Best practices for securing and monitoring the use of Amazon Polly within your AWS environment 

Intended Audience

This lesson is designed for software developers or anyone looking to integrate lifelike text-to-speech capabilities into their applications, websites, or services using Amazon Polly. 

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this lesson, you should already have some basic working knowledge of building cloud solutions on the AWS platform.