Amazon Polly upgrades its Generative engine

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  • Amazon Polly says its upgraded Generative engine produces more natural, expressive speech and improves how it reads details such as numbers and addresses.
  • The release adds 14 voices across 9 locales, including the first generally available Generative voices in Hindi and Finnish.
  • The expanded catalog contains 57 Generative voices covering 11 languages and 25 locales.
  • Existing Generative voice integrations keep their API calls and pricing, and AWS says applications need no code changes to receive the upgrade.

Our take

Keeping the existing API and price makes this a lower-effort upgrade for teams already using Polly than a change of speech provider. However, Generative voices still lack speech marks, so workflows that depend on them must stay with Polly’s standard or neural voices.

Sources

  1. Amazon Polly delivers a major upgrade to its Generative engine · AWS Machine Learning

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