[arm-allstar] Text to Speech - Amazon Polly

[Doug Crompton]

Very interesting. Seems Amazon and Google are in a fight for the top in
just about everything.  Personally I would decline to give them my credit
card number even though it is probably perfectly safe. If you just want ID
and quick text to speech messages for Allstar there are a few places on the
Internet you can do that. I won't mention URL's as it is technically not
legal to do anything more than demo but you can put in text, play it,
record locally via computer analog recorder to wav and process the wav file
using sox. Sounds like a lot to do but really very easy and excellent
results.

If you want to have great TTS though the Amazon deal certainly looks good.
I know weather is a fascination of many hams but I am still not convinced
you need to articulate an entire weather forecast over the air when you
have myriads of other ways to get the same result. The rules say we cannot
retransmit the weather service forecasts or warnings but we can change the
text they put out to voice and transmit that. I am not sure what the FCC's
object was in disallowing retransmissions but if it was to eliminate
redundant transmissions then it would apply to both methods!


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*


On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 10:24 PM, "Randy Neals via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> https://aws.amazon.com/polly/
>
> The Amazon Polly free tier includes 5 million characters per month for
> speech or Speech Marks requests, for the first 12 months, starting from the
> first request for speech.
>
> I've used the demo on the AWS dashboard to make several recordings.
> I used another site to transcode the recordings to other file formats.
>
> The more advanced among us may find a way to use the API and transcribe
> things like weather bulletins etc.
>
> -Randy
> W3RWN
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