polly

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polly

polly is a simple CLI tool to transform academic plain text files into audio using AWS Polly. Extraneous text such as references are removed.

Installation

See Releases.

Usage

See polly -h:

Transform academic plain text files into audio using AWS Polly.

Usage of polly:

Defaults:
  -bucket string
        Output S3 bucket name (default "my-bucket")
  -dry-run
        Print TTS to file without processing. (default true)
  -engine string
        TTS engine (standard or neural) (default "neural")
  -format string
        Output format (mp3, ogg_vorbis, or pcm) (default "mp3")
  -input string
        Filename containing text to convert (default "input.txt")
  -prefix string
        Output S3 bucket prefix (default "<filename>")
  -voice string
        Voice to use for synthesis (Joanna, Salli, Kendra, Matthew, Amy [British], Brian [British], Olivia [Australian]) (default "Joanna")

Optional environmental variables:

    export AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_PROFILE=default
    export AWS_SNS_TOPIC_ARN=my_topic_arn

Authors

• Andrew J. Rech

License

GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0