Using Amazon Polly on the Console - Amazon Polly
Step 1.1: Synthesizing speech quick start (Console)Step 1.2: Synthesizing speech with plain text input (Console)

Using Amazon Polly on the Console

The Amazon Polly Console is the easiest way to start testing and using Amazon Polly's speech synthesizing features. The Amazon Polly Console supports synthesizing speech from either plain text or SSML input.

Step 1.1: Synthesizing speech quick start (Console)

This Quick Start walks you through the fastest way to test the Amazon Polly speech synthesis for speech quality.

To quickly test Amazon Polly (Console)

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon Polly console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/polly/.

  2. Choose the Text-to-Speech tab. The text field will load with example text so you can quickly try out Amazon Polly.

  3. Turn off SSML.

  4. Under Engine, choose Standard, Neural, or Long Form.

  5. Choose a language and AWS Region, then choose a voice. If you choose Neural for Engine, only the languages and voices that support NTTS are available. All Standard and Long Form voices are disabled.

  6. Choose Listen.

For more in-depth testing, see the following topics:

Step 1.2: Synthesizing speech with plain text input (Console)

The following procedure synthesizes speech using plain text input. Note how "W3C" and the date "10/3" (October 3rd) are synthesized.

To synthesize speech using plain text input (console)

  1. After logging on to the Amazon Polly console, choose Try Amazon Polly, and then choose the Text-to-Speech tab.

  2. Turn off SSML.

  3. Type or paste this text into the input box.

    He was caught up in the game. 
In the middle of the 10/3/2014 W3C meeting
he shouted, "Score!" quite loudly.

  4. For Engine, choose Standard, Neural, or Long Form.

  5. Choose a language and AWS Region, then choose a voice. If you choose Neural for Engine, only the languages and voices that support NTTS are available. All Standard and Long Form voices are disabled.

  6. To listen to the speech immediately, choose Listen.

  7. To save the speech to a file, do one of the following:

    1. Choose Download.

    2. To change to a different file format, expand Additional settings, turn on Speech file format settings, choose the file format that you want, and then choose Download.

For more in-depth examples, see the following topics: