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A financial institution is developing an application that needs to generate highly realistic, human-like speech from written text for its virtual assistant. The institution requires a service that supports multiple languages and lifelike voices, including custom brand voices. Which AWS service should they use?

  1. AAmazon Transcribe
  2. BAmazon Polly
  3. CAmazon Lex
  4. DAmazon Comprehend Medical
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Correct answer: B. Amazon Polly

Amazon Polly is a text-to-speech (TTS) service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk. It supports dozens of languages and offers a Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) option for even more natural-sounding voices, as well as Brand Voice creation.

Why the other options are wrong

  • A. Amazon Transcribe converts speech to text, the opposite of the requirement.
  • C. Amazon Lex is used for building conversational interfaces (chatbots), not for generating speech from text.
  • D. Amazon Comprehend Medical is for extracting health information from medical text, unrelated to speech generation.

Amazon Polly

An AWS text-to-speech (TTS) service that converts text into lifelike speech.

  • Supports multiple languages and a wide selection of voices.
  • Offers Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) for highly natural-sounding voices.
  • Allows creation of custom Brand Voices for unique identity.

Memory trick: Polly speaks, Transcribe hears.

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