Voice-Over&Voice Acting happens Automatically - Amazon Polly

Course Overview

This course, Voice-Over & Voice Acting with Amazon Polly, provides students with the opportunity to learn how to automatically generate professional quality audio from text. Students will gain hands-on experience on how to use Amazon Polly to generate voice-over for audio books, weekly podcasts, radio commercials, metro train announcements, general horoscopes, top 5 news of the hour, lost kid announcements, tongue twisters in Hindi & English, audio quizzes, global tech conferences, and airport announcements. The course also covers 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, and whispering 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, and how to install, configure, and test the AWS plugin for WordPress to automatically translate and give voice to text on a live blog post.

Students will also learn how to secure the root account by using multi-factor authentication (MFA), follow the principle of least privileges to give only the required access rights to a user, use all the best practices along the way, apply the AWS managed policies to a group of users collectively, and utilize AWS in-built services for logging (CloudTrail), monitoring (CloudWatchEvents) & alerting (SNS) our Amazon Polly events. Additionally, students will learn how to configure billing alerts to get the cost notifications for services consumed in a month.

This course has been highly rated by students who have found it useful. With 5.0 out of 5 ratings, students have commented that the course is “surprisingly good”, “very nice”, and “highly recommended”. With this course, students will benefit from automation quick benefits such as affordability, fast turnaround time, less hard work, and a healthy throat.

Students from 119 countries and 37 languages are learning from this course, and 3938 happy students have already enrolled. By the end of this course, students will be able to generate professional quality audio from their text automatically and handle their AWS account independently to operate Amazon Polly in a secure and systematic way.