Amazon Polly

Lifelike Voices

Amazon Polly offers dozens of lifelike voices across a broad set of languages, created using native speakers with voice-to-voice variations even within the same language. Most languages include one or more male and female voices, so you can choose the best fit for your use case.

Deliver conversational user experiences with natural-sounding speech in consistently fast response times.

Deep Learning & Generative AI

Using deep learning technologies and powerful neural networks, Amazon Polly converts articles, web pages, PDF documents, and other text into audio streams. Generative voice engines work in the background to synthesize speech on demand.

Generate high-quality, natural-sounding voice on demand for a wide range of content types.

API Integration

Integrate the Amazon Polly API into your existing applications to become voice-ready quickly. The service is fully managed, so you can add text-to-speech capabilities without managing infrastructure.

Quickly add voice capabilities to your applications and engage users with audio content.

Dozens of Languages

Amazon Polly supports dozens of languages, helping you meet diverse linguistic, accessibility, and learning needs of users across geographies and markets. You can generate speech in multiple languages with a variety of voices.

Reach a global audience with localized, natural-sounding audio content.

Customizable Output

Amazon Polly provides customizable output options, allowing you to adjust speech to fit your specific use case. You can also use Speech Marks metadata for synchronization tasks like lip-syncing or highlighted text.

Tailor the audio output to your exact requirements, from narration to interactive applications.

Pay-as-You-Go Pricing

Amazon Polly uses a pay-as-you-go model, charging only for the characters of text you convert to speech or Speech Marks. Standard voices are $4.00 per 1 million characters, Neural voices $16.00, Long-Form voices $100.00, and Generative voices $30.00 per 1 million characters (outside the free tier). Free tier includes 5 million characters per month for Standard voices, and 1 million for Neural voices for the first 12 months.

Control costs with transparent, usage-based pricing and a generous free tier to get started.

• AI Voice Generator and Text-to-Speech ToolAmazon Polly is an AI voice generator and text-to-speech tool offered by AWS, as stated on the official product page.
• Part of AWS CloudAmazon Polly is a service within AWS, the world's most comprehensive cloud, enabling organizations to accelerate innovation and reduce costs.
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Engage customers with a natural-sounding voice

Amazon Polly delivers conversational user experiences in consistently fast response times. You can choose from dozens of lifelike voices across many languages, each created using native speakers, with voice-to-voice variations even within the same language. Most languages include one or more male and female voices, so you can pick the best fit for your use case.

Create audio for media at a fraction of the cost

Amazon Polly converts articles, web pages, PDF documents, and other text into audio streams using deep learning technologies. This makes it easy to produce audio content for news articles, books, or other media without expensive studio recording. For example, a typical news article (~6,500 characters) costs only $0.10 with Neural voices, and a full book like 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (~600,000 characters) costs $9.60 with Neural voices.

Build speech-activated applications

Integrate the Amazon Polly API into your existing applications to become voice-ready quickly. The service generates voice on demand, converting any text to an audio stream. You can use it to add voice to conversational applications, animated avatars, or any other interactive experience. For example, a conversational application with 300 requests per user per month (30,000 characters) costs just $0.48 per user per month with Neural voices.

Meet diverse linguistic, accessibility, and learning needs

Amazon Polly provides dozens of lifelike voices across a broad set of languages, helping you meet the linguistic, accessibility, and learning needs of users across geographies and markets. You can use it for storytelling with highlighted text for children, where Speech Marks synchronize the highlighted text with the audio. For a 10,000-character story, the cost is $0.32 with Neural voices (including Speech Marks data).

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