Amazon Polly (Text-To-Speech) And Adobe Products

Report · Dec 21, 2019

Newbie here.

A lot of video viewers complain that the text-to-speech in video editors sounds robotic and unnatural. It appears to also be the case with Adobe software after listening to the function in YouTube videos talking about Adobe software such as Audition.

Amazon Polly (Text-To-Speech) claims to have natural sounding and life-like speech and that appears to be the case.

Can I upload Amazon Polly Text-To-Speech into Adobe products such as Audition, Captivate and Adobe Premiere Pro? Is a plugin or other software required to do so? Is there a tutorial on how to do so?

Thank you.

Report · Dec 21, 2019

No, you can't do that. The main reason is that it's not Audition's text to speech app, it's Microsoft's. Audition is using the system built into the OS and it's hard-wired to that. And as far as the generator is concerned, it's free - even though some of the voices aren't.

Amazon Polly is completely different. It's an on-line streaming service. It exists as a Wordpress app, but that only talks to an external server, and it charges by the letter. The entire thing's cloud-based. There's no way that Amazon is going to let anybody install a version of that unless there's a direct charging mechanism built in, are they? And if you look at the setup video, that's exactly what happens. Okay it doesn't cost much, but there's no way that it would ever get integrated into Audition in that form.

Setup video I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j77ZwRHh3BE

Report · Dec 27, 2019

All the Generate Speech options use voices from your computer's OS.

You could use Amazon Polly in products like Audition, Captivate and Premiere Pro but you'd need to generate the speech via the Polly interface first and then grab the download. As long as you have an AWS account with Amazon it should be a straightforward process to generate and then import into Audition.

No plugin exists for this and do bear in mind that you are charged although I think there is a free plan when for you first activate your account for the first 12 months. So you have some time to play around and work things out.