THE BEST and Totally Free Online Speech Converter.
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Amazon Polly URL https://aws.amazon.com/polly/

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In this video we explore a very new and extremely fascinating topic. How to convert text into real humanlike speech. You can even choose between, a traditional American accent, or a good Australian accent, even other languages, and female voices.
Also known as TTS, or text to speech. The package we look at today, makes use of advanced, deep learning technologies to synthesize natural sounding human speech. It is called Amazon Polly and it turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products.
Go to, aws.amazon.com/polly. The link is in the description.
Then go through the normal sign up process which brings you to this screen. We signed up before so we just click on, sign into the console. E-mail, next, and password. Once on this screen just click, Amazon Polly. Your screen will look like this.
Now you can create and download your speech. If you click on, language and region, you will see all the languages and different voices offered.
Let’s select English, US, and choose the voice of Matthew. Clear the existing text.
Let’s take a short piece of text from this script to demonstrate the importance of punctuation in the process.
Copy the text from your script document and paste over here. Then select listen to speech.
“Amazon Polly is an amazing totally free TTS service that we will hear a lot of in future. Although there are other TTS applications Amazon Web Services or AWS offers an outstanding product.”
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After writing your script, or text, you have to play around with commas and full stops to make your sentence sound the way you like it. The best way to do this is copy your text and listen to the result. Then alter your script to make it sound right.
Now let us add a few commas and listen to the difference it makes.
“Amazon Polly is an amazing totally free TTS service that we will hear a lot of in future. Although there are other TTS applications Amazon Web Services or AWS offers an outstanding product.”
That sounds better. You can hear the difference in the speech. Try different punctuation marks until you get the result you want.
Your voice result can then be saved as an MP3 file. To make sure your track is perfect, run it through an audio editor. Normalize the output level and you may want to add a bit of effect to the voice like reverb or echo. In the editor you can also increase pauses between sentences.
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The voices you will hear are extremely real and lifelike, and the accents are very accurate.
These voices can be used for any project.
Although there are other TTS services, Amazon Polly, is one of the best and compares favorably with other rather pricey versions.
Oh, I forgot to mention. Amazon Polly is totally free.
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