Amazon Polly
Amazon Polly is a cloud-based Text-to-Speech (TTS) service that converts text into lifelike speech, allowing developers to create applications that talk. It offers a wide selection of natural-sounding voices across many languages, leveraging advanced deep learning technologies to synthesize…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2016
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Amazon Polly was created to provide developers with an easily accessible, scalable, and high-quality text-to-speech solution, overcoming the limitations of previous TTS technologies which were often expensive, required specialized hardware, produced robotic-sounding voices, and were difficult to integrate and scale for diverse applications.
- Platforms
- AWS Cloud, Mobile devices (iOS, Android via SDKs), IoT devices, Web browsers (via JavaScript SDK), Desktop applications (Windows, macOS, Linux via SDKs)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Healthcare providers for accessibility features
- The Washington Post
- Netflix
- Duolingo
- DoiT International
- Education technology companies