Amazon Polly: “Hello World”… literally!

Today, AWS announced a new text-to-speech service, called Polly. Well… I had to try it :D

Here’s a *very* basic example in Python. There is much more to Polly, but this should get you started. You can list all available voices with ‘aws polly describe-voices’.

And yes, I’m sure there are more clever ways to play sound files in Python, but they’re beyond my weak skills, so there ;)

Very fun service. I see a lot of chatty build servers on the horizon, yelling in German at careless developers. Oh yes, pure bliss :D

Till next time, keep rockin’.

Originally published at blog.julien.org on December 1, 2016.