Speaking Texts...!

In today's world, there are so many sources available to convert text files into audio ones. I will show you one way to it using Amazon Web Services. You just require a little bit of knowledge to AWS and Done! Also, if you know Python then you can also tweak the code and explore the things.

Here is a step by step tutorial to convert Text file into Audio files.

This will a demonstration of Amazon Polly which converts your given text file into Speech. Strange thing is that it is almost free. Amazon doen’t charges you to first 1 million words.
Just follow steps and I will guide you to that.

Prerequisites

• Little knowledge of AWS.
• Enthusiasm to learn.

Input

• text: Just write some paragraph of whatever length.
• Create one S3 bucket. (Give Amazon Polly permission to write in S3)(AWS Doc)
• Select your favourite voice for given language as input. (Voice List)

Steps to run

1. Install boto3

pip install boto3

2. Install AWS CLI and configure credentials

aws configure

OR
put below code into ~/.aws/credentials

[default]
aws_access_key_id = YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
aws_secret_access_key = YOUR_SECRET_KEY
region=us-east-1

3. Create S3 bucket and Create Role for Polly AWS Doc
4. Clone https://github.com/ganatradeval/AmazonPolly.git.
5. Specify variables in polly.py file.
6. Run following.

cd AmazonPolly
python polly.py

Deval Ganatra