[arm-allstar] Text to Speech - Amazon Polly

[Randy Neals]

Here are a couple of MP3's which I ran of your email using the AWS Polly
Service.
The quality seems very good. And it's not demo service, so likely to stay
around a while.

-Randy

On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 8:20 PM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> 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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