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Voice-Over/Voice Acting happens Automatically - Amazon Polly

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Overview

No Studios | No Microphones | No HiFi Stuff | Still Produce - Human Like Voice-Over/Voice Acting Using Amazon Polly TTS

What you'll learn:
  • You will learn how you can use Amazon Polly to Automatically convert text into human like speech.
  • You will be able to control different aspects of Text-to-speech voices like volume, pitch, rate, timber etc.
  • You can generate Audio for a 64 pages long eBook having ~165k characters in it resulting in speech duration of ~3 hours 50 min by spending only $2.64.
  • You can generate Audio for a 224 pages long eBook having ~600k characters in it resulting in speech duration of ~13 hours 50 min by spending Only $9.60.
  • You will learn how to add the effects like break, emphasis, breathing, whispering and softness to a voice.
  • You will learn how to save text-to-speech synthesized output as MP3, OGG(Vorbis) and PCM formats.
  • You will learn how you can generate an automated audio voice without using microphone, recording studio and even in a crowded place.
  • You will learn how you can translate text from one language to another and generate the audio in supported voices in that language.
  • You will learn how to use the in-built speaking styles like Newscaster and Conversational to produce audio for these categories without much effort.
  • You will learn how to utilize Amazon Polly voices to generate Public Announcements, Podcasts, Audio books, News and Horoscope like Use Cases
  • You will learn how you can automatically give Voice to the written content on your WordPress Web Pages / Posts using AWS Plugin for WordPress.
  • You will learn how you can automatically Translate your WordPress Web Pages / Posts in multiple languages automatically using AWS Plugin for WordPress.

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Automation Quick Benefits: Very Affordable | Fast Turnaround Time | Less Hard Work | Healthy Throat |


Speed up your Voice-Over/Voice-acting Projects with this Most natural and human-like text-to-speech service called Amazon Polly, You don't need to have a recording studio, a microphone, a quiet place, or a well toned voice of yourself to do the voice-over for your projects, the service provide human-like voices ready for use, just provide your text and select a voice and get the professional quality audio output back in MP3 format, it's just as simple as that!

The usual turnaround time for a Voice-Over artist for producing a short audio is somewhere between 24-72hours and they may charge hundreds of dollars to produce a Voice-Over for a few minutes of textual content.


With Amazon Polly you can automatically generate the audio form of a whole book say "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens that is having text length of ~165k characters, comprising of 64 pages with a speech duration of ~3 hours 50 min by spending only $2.64 and that too in just a short amount of time as compared to an actual Voice-Over artist!


This course gives you hands-on experience on:

  • How to Automatically generate Voice-Over for An Audio Book Use Case

  • How to Automatically generate Voice-Over for A Weekly Podcast Use Case

  • How to Automatically generate Voice-Over for A Radio Commercial Use Case

  • How to Automatically generate Voice-Over for Metro Train Announcements

  • How to Automatically generate Voice-Over for General Horoscope Use case

  • How to Automatically generate Voice-Over for Top 5 News of The Hour Use Case

  • How to Automatically generate Voice-Over for Lost Kid Announcements

  • How to Automatically generate Voice-Over for Tongue Twisters In Hindi & English

  • How to Automatically generate Voice-Over for An Audio Quiz Use Case

  • How to Automatically generate Voice-Over for A Global Tech Conference Use Case

  • How to Automatically generate Voice-Over for An Airport Announcement Use Case

  • How to use Automatic Voices in Male, Female and Kids categories to generate an audio

  • How to Add Real-life Effects like Pause, Break, Breath, Emphasis, Whispering and many more to an audio

  • How to Customize the Synthetization of Specific Words in the Audio Output using the Lexicon feature

  • How to Use In-built Newscaster and Conversational Speaking styles while generating the Audio Output

  • How to Translate text from one language to another and do the Synthetization of translated text

  • How to Install, Configure and Test the AWS Plugin For WordPress to Automatically Translate & Give Voice to text on a Live Blog Post


Using Amazon Polly you can Automatically generate Voice-Over for your Text in 31 Supported languages (and counting..) as listed below:

  1. Arabic

  2. Chinese, Mandarin

  3. Danish

  4. Dutch

  5. English, Australian

  6. English, British

  7. English, Indian

  8. English, New Zealand

  9. English, South African

  10. English, US

  11. English, Welsh

  12. French

  13. French, Canadian

  14. Hindi

  15. German

  16. Icelandic

  17. Italian

  18. Japanese

  19. Korean

  20. Norwegian

  21. Polish

  22. Portuguese, Brazilian

  23. Portuguese, European

  24. Romanian

  25. Russian

  26. Spanish, European

  27. Spanish, Mexican

  28. Spanish, US

  29. Swedish

  30. Turkish

  31. Welsh


Some of the unique features of this course are:

  • Securing the root account by using Multi-Factor Authentication(MFA)

  • Following the principle of least privileges to give only the required access rights to a user

  • Using all the best practices along the way

  • Applying the AWS Managed policies to a group of users collectively

  • Utilizing AWS in-built Services for Logging(CloudTrail), Monitoring(CloudWatchEvents) & Alerting(SNS) our Amazon Polly Events

  • Configuring billing alerts to get the cost notifications for services consumed in a month

  • I will explain each and everything that comes on the screen, I will also explain every SSML tag syntax that we will follow

  • By the end of this course, you will be able to generate professional quality Audio from your Text Automatically and handle your AWS Account independently to operate Amazon Polly in a Secure and Systematic way.

  • Students from 119 Countries and 37 Languages are learning from this course.

  • 3938 happy students havealready enrolled and the count is just growing, get yourself counted by joining today!


With this course, you will get:

  • Continuous updates on new features released by Amazon for Amazon Polly.

  • Almost accurate Subtitles in English on each Video.

  • Q/A Support and Answers to your queries within 24hours or even prior to that in some cases!

  • A Cheatsheet for SSML tags in PDF format.

  • All Course slides in PDF format.

So, If you are excited to embark on this journey then enroll in this course now!

You don't need to worry as you are covered with a 30days money-back guarantee.

So, You have nothing to lose but only to gain.

Hit that Enroll button now to start this journey...I will see you inside the course...Thank You!

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Update History:

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22nd July 2021 - Added Two new Sections comprising of 3 Videos as mentioned below:

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Section-2: New Update - July-2021 - Amazon Polly New Console Dashboard - A Walkthrough!

  • New Update - July-2021 - Amazon Polly New Console Dashboard - A Walkthrough!

Section-11: Installing | Configuring | Testing | AWS Plugin For WordPress | On A Blog Post

  • Assigning Required Access to Ray Chan for Configuring AWS WordPress Plugin

  • Installing | Configuring | Testing | AWS Plugin For WordPress | On A Blog Post

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10th Nov 2020: Four New Use Cases Added to the Practical Section - "Amazon Polly Use-Cases [Audio Version]".

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Taught by

Nitin Wadhera

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