Online service (browser-based)
https://console.aws.amazon.com/polly/home/SynthesizeSpeech
(Log on to aws, go to Polly. Very simple)
Command Line interface (CLI) service
1 Log on to aws and create an IAM user
- add a user with username: administrator with management console access
- create an admin group with admin access policy. add user to the group
- create an access key ID and secret access key
sign in: https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/
user - security credentials - access keys - create access key
download the key pair file (.csv) to your local computer
2. install application: https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.msi
- check after installation: c:\> aws --version
3. configure aws CLI
- aws configure
copy/paster key id, access key, input default region
4 start using Polly from command line. Examples:
aws polly synthesize-speech ^--output-format mp3 ^--voice-id Joanna ^--text "Hello, my name is Joanna. I learned about the W3C on 10/3 of last year." ^hello.mp3hello.mp3
aws polly synthesize-speech^ // load text from a file--output-format mp3 ^--voice-id Brian^--text file://war1.txt ^war1.mp3
aws polly start-speech-synthesis-task ^ //save to S3--engine neural ^--region us-west-2 ^--endpoint-url "https://polly.us-eest-1.amazonaws.com/" ^--output-format mp3 ^--output-s3-bucket-name chris.hare ^--voice-id Joanna ^--text file://war1.txt
With SSML (synthesis markup language), you add tags such as news, conversational, lexicon and add break, emphasis, etc.
