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In this blog I will post announcements and give insights into software development topics for True North products. This will help you to understand what goes on under the hood.


Pollyzon 1.0

Pollyzon was born out of the need to have professional voiceovers for videos. The name "Pollyzon" is a combination of the "Polly" service name that produces AI based text to speech and the last part of the word "amaZON." Pollyzon makes it really easy to create lifelike speech very quickly. Amazon has a console where you can type in your plain text or SSML enhanced text, but that is cumbersome and can get very messy with XML markup tags. Then there are websites that tap into the AWS Polly service as a subscription service and that can be very expensive. By comparison, just paying for the direct usage of the Polly service on AWS is orders of magnitude cheaper than a subscription service!

The other part of the equation is creating your content. Most editors on subscription websites for creating the input are rudimentary. With Pollyzon I strove for ease of use without giving up features, so I designed the editor like a word processor with styles. I even added a few bells and whistles AWS does not support like changing voices at will in the document or adding breaths in the neural voices (which is not supported by Polly). Hands down, Pollyzon makes creating text to speech effortless. Download it and try it for yourself.

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