This week Amazon has announced news in its software. These news include a new TTS program called Amazon Polly. A TTS software is a program that reads us the text we give it or the text of the applications we are running. It is an important part of virtual assistants like Alexa but also of ebook functions like listening to the book.
Amazon Polly will be a new program that will replace the one provided by Ivona and that improves not only the text processing but also the options that the user will have to use this software.
Amazon Polly will be the new TTS software for Amazon reading devices
As far as we know, the new software Amazon Polly will have two voices (one male and one female) that will be able to read in 24 languages and will have up to 47 different voice tones that the user or developer can use. Something interesting for the user, but also, Amazon Polly can read an ebook like «The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn»In a matter of minutes and listen to it as an aduiobook.
However, for the moment, Amazon Polly will be software for developers that users can find on AWS. That is, Amazon will launch Amazon Polly in API format that can be used by any user of Amazon Web Services and a reduced version that you can use any as currently happens with Alexa. The price of this software will be based on transcribed character, so a simple text could cost us very little money and help us enormously.
In any case it will be a tool that will soon be on our tablets and in our eReaders, without forgetting our mobile that will surely have more than one application, not only audiobooks but also a news reader or another similar one that Amazon Polly brings us to our device.
now only need the kindle have audio….