While Polly is no replacement for a professional voice actor or human speaker, it’s a decent substitute if you need audio quick or cheaply. You may have to experiment with some of the voices to find one that sounds most natural to you (this is still synthesized, remember), but most of them get the job done.Īmazon Polly uses a markup language called SSML to create nuance in speech, allowing you to set the cadence and effects used by the program. Most languages they offer have a male and female option, though some like Mandarin Chinese have only one or the other. Not only can you choose the language in which your content is spoken, but you can also choose which voice speaks it. Amazon PollyĪmazon has its thumb in nearly every pie on the internet, so why not text to speech, too? Their Polly app through AWS is one of the most advanced options out there. With a few clicks and a quick copy/paste, these tools will make your users think you spent hours in a recording booth, when in fact you never stepped foot in front of a mic at all. That’s why so many text to speech apps have sprung up.

But for many people, audio is the difference in consuming that content or not. But not everyone has time to create their content twice, to write it and edit it, then to record and edit that, too. Podcasts are as popular as they have ever been (and growing every day), and many websites provide audio versions of their articles, for accessibility, user engagement, and even SEO. Audio content has never been more important.

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