This is an important update for publishers who are experimenting with the audio format to serve their readers. Up to 1 million characters for Neural Text-To-Speech voices per month are free for the first 12 months, starting from the first request for speech (standard or NTTS). All sets include both male and female voices.

The Newscaster Style is available for two US English voices.

NTTS is now available for 11 voices which include 3 UK English voices, and 8 US English voices. We’re thrilled that our customers will get to listen to news and Wikipedia information from Alexa in this new way.” In January, Amazon had rolled out Newscaster Style to its Alexa enabled devices for daily briefings and Wikipedia snippet narrations.Īndrew Breen, Senior Manager with the TTS Research team at Amazon had said in a statement, “The ability to teach Alexa to adapt her speaking style based on the context of the customer’s request opens the possibility to deliver new and delightful experiences that were previously unthinkable. Julien Simon, Global Tech Evangelist at Amazon Web Services Adding Amazon Translate, they can also listen to articles that are automatically translated to a language they understand. Thanks to Polly and the Newscaster Style, their readers (or should we say listeners now?) can enjoy articles read in a high-quality voice that sounds like what they might expect to hear on the TV or radio. So it will read a newscast, a sportscast, or a university class lecture in the style that human ears are accustomed to hearing each of them. According to Simon, Newscaster Style tailors the style of narration according to the content. Polly.The other new feature, Newscaster Style, makes narration sound very realistic whether it’s reading news articles or blog posts. Let fileStream = fs.createWriteStream('polly-tts.mp3') Polly-tts is a module that uses amazon polly for providing text to speech using the aws NoticeĪs it uses EcmasScript 2015 code it will probably not work with older Node Versions.įor more information regarding polly see RoadmapĪ simple example how to use this module.

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