Amazon Polly support

[Dakkaron]

I'd love to have direct support for Amazon Polly. It's TTS engine is so much better than the currnetly implemented one. It allows for changing voice, pitch, volume and emphasis mid-sentence and the quality is so high that you could actually use it in a finished book/game.

Also, it has a very generous trial period (I think you get 5 million free characters per month for a year). After that it costs $4 per 1 million characters.

The API is rather simple, and there is a Haskell package that handles about everything you need to use Polly here: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/amazonka-polly

I would implement it, but I have had my fill of Haskell ;)

[nomeata]

I am not too eager to deeply integrate a proprietary service directly into tttool. And the TTS support is only meant as a development aid anyways… But it should be possible for you to create a separate tool that creates the media files, and even supports the extra options etc?

[nomeata]

Ah, I see you did that already. Since it's a separate file anyways, how about you turn this into its own tool and project? We can link it so that people can find it, without confusing tttool users about why they need python or AWS credentials etc.

[Golpe82]

I find @nomeata `s suggestion a good one