04-17-2018, 12:10 PM
AMAZON AWS POLLY TTS SERVICE
FOR YOUR MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS
... FREE FOR A YEAR!
FOR YOUR MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS
... FREE FOR A YEAR!
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I read about this service on another forum and thought I'd share it here. I also added content that I hope you will find useful.
This share covers a lot of pieces so, please, bear with me...
Amazon's Polly is a paid text-to-speech (TTS) Amazon Web Service (AWS) that creates voices you can use in your multimedia projects, such as audiobooks, recorded podcasts or videos.
You can try this paid service FREE for 1 year by using the link behind the MAGIC BUTTON. I've also included the link to the step-by-step directions that help you to get set up.
The steps are pretty clear-cut:
1. Set Up An AWS Account and Create a User
2. Get Started Using the Console
3. Get Started Using the AWS CLI
Here's where to go to get started:
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https://anonymiz.com/?https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.aws.amazon.com%2Fpolly%2Flatest%2Fdg%2Fgetting-started.html
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HERE'S WHERE TO LEARN MORE...
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https://anonymiz.com/?https%3A%2F%2Fw3lessons.info%2F2018%2F02%2F07%2Fphp-text-to-speech-amazon-polly%2F
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WITH THESE TOOLS, YOU'RE READY TO CREATE BUTT-KICKING VIDEOS THAT GO VIRAL!
With the right tools, there is no excuse (well, you do need a little talent) not to create videos that look and sound so professional that they spin and whirl in a vortex of viral views.
Here is a list of products and services you can use to make stellar YouTube, sales, explainer or other videos that (depending on your ability) can go viral and create a ton of traffic to your landing pages, offers and more!
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* Audacity or other sound editing software with the ability to merge sound files (i.e., background music over voice)
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http://www.audacityteam.org/download/
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* Photodex Pro-Show Producer or other quality slide show software with the option to convert to video (mp4)
Read More About Pro-Show Producer V9:
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http://www.photodex.com/producer9
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Photodex ProShow Producer and ProShow Gold are designed for Windows but you can easily run it on a Max using the Mac's ability to run Windows software.
Read More Here:
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https://kb.photodex.com/2981/how-to-run-proshow-on-a-mac/
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Here is the forum thread where you can get the full version, patch included:
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http://bestblackhatforum.com/Thread-GET-Photodex-ProShow-Producer-9-0-3782-Patch-FULL-MEGA?highlight=proshow+producer
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IMPORTANT NOTE: If you don't know how to work with patch files, please see sullichoi's instructions in post #11 on that thread. Also, if the link in post #1 is dead, there are multiple mirror links on that thread.
If you'd prefer to get an official (but trial) download from the website, go here:
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http://www.photodex.com/try
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There are other forum links to Photodex ProShow Producer and ProShow Gold from 2017. Do a forum search and you can try those download links.
* Amazon AWS Polly Text-to-Speech Service (or other TTS engine with human-sounding voices). iNOVA or Ivonna are other quality voice engines you can look into that all work within text-to-speech (ex: Balabolka, eSpeak, NaturalReader, TextAloud and others).
TEST OUT THESE TEXT-TO-SPEECH SOFTWARES ... SEE WHICH ONE(S) YOU LIKE!
Here, I'm including a bunch of links to TTS softwares. Of course, you shouldn't attempt to download all of them but read up on them and see which you want to try. Then narrow them down to the best.
Some are trials only; some are free and you can use them forever.
If any of these links have died, just do a Google search for the software.
FREE TEXT-TO-SPEECH SOFTWARE
Balabolka
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https://balabolka.en.softonic.com/
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http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm
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AUDIOBOOK MAKER SOFTWARE
AudioBookMaker For Mac OS X
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http://audiobookmaker.sourceforge.net/
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AudioBook Maker for Windows
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/audiobookmaker/
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TTS VOICE ENGINES
ClaroVoice - Claro Software [Windows and Mac]
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https://www.clarosoftware.com/voices
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eSpeak
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http://espeak.sourceforge.net/download.html
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ISpeech
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http://www.ispeech.org/
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Ivona
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https://www.ivona.com/
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Kyrathasoft TTS
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http://kyrathaba.dcmembers.com/my_programs/KyrTTS/KyrTTS.htm
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NaturalReader
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http://www.naturalreaders.com/download.htm
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NeoSpeech
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https://neospeech.com/
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PowerTalk - Works in PowerPoint software
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http://fullmeasure.co.uk/powertalk/
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Read4Me TTS Clipboard Reader
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/read4mecbr/
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ReadTheWords.com
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http://readthewords.com/
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Speakonia
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http://download.cnet.com/Speakonia/3000-7239_4-10125328.html
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Speak Out
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http://download.cnet.com/Speak-Out/3000-2094_4-75895931.html
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Text2Speech
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http://download.cnet.com/Text2Speech/3000-2169_4-10831472.html
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TextAloud 3
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http://nextup.com/
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Text to Wavs
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http://download.cnet.com/Text-To-WAV/3000-7239_4-10788300.html
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Ultra Hal TTS Reader
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https://ultra-hal-text-to-speech-reader.en.softonic.com/
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Verbose
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https://ccm.net/download/download-12255-verbose-text-to-speech-software
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WordTalk
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http://www.wordtalk.org.uk/home/
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Zabaware TTS Reader
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http://www.zabaware.com/download.asp
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Read More About the BEST FREE TTS Softwares Here:
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https://www.techradar.com/news/the-best-free-text-to-speech-software
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TIPS FOR TWEAKING TTS VOICES TO SOUND MORE HUMAN
It is important to tweak TTS voices as much as you can manually to help them sound more like a human speaking. Here are a couple of tips for how to do that...
If you get a TTS voice engine that sounds fairly human but you notice some fluctuation in the pronunciation of certain words or names, here's a tip...
Go back into your text editor and write the word phonetically. That is, write it out as it SOUNDS ... not as it is correctly spelled.
For example, if the typed name Layna is pronounced LayNA (with emphasis on the ending) you can type it as Lane-nuh for a more natural sound. You can keep a dictionary close by to get phonetic keys to words that don't quite sound as they should in TTS voices.
Another tip: You can put more distance between words with this (...) and the voice pauses a little between words or sentences.
BE CAREFUL DOWNLOADING FROM POPULAR DOWNLOAD SITES
Please be careful when downloading on sites like download.cnet, sourceforge.net and other popular download platforms by keeping your virus protection running and scanning the files you download to be sure they're safe. Actually, be sure to virus scan everything you download from anywhere.
Just recently, I had a zipped file that showed as safe with my A-V but someone here had to educate me that I needed to unzip the rar archive and then scan the files inside and sure enough, there were a host of trojans there...just waiting to infect my computer. So, I don't mean to sound like your Mom but I want you to be careful.
GET THE DEVELOPER'S GUIDE TO AMAZON AWS POLLY
You can get the Developer's Guide to Amazon's Polly here:
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https://www15.zippyshare.com/v/JeRVB6xR/file.html
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NOTE: If the Zippy link dies and no one provides a mirror, you can get this manual directly from the Amazon link I provide above. Just look in the upper right corner of the browser on that page for the PDF icon to download the Polly manual.
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Virus Total:
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/3b00ff.../detection
File name polly-dg.pdf
File size 1.31 MB
Detection ratio: 0 / 59
Last analysis 2018-04-16 23:56:48 UTC
I sincerely hope this post has given you some motivation to enhance your videos or (in the case you haven't started any videos yet) the impetus to get started.
You can do this!
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