Amazon Polly is a cloud platform that converts text into speech. We have integrated it into Pugpig Bolt, allowing you to have an audio option for your articles, as a button in the timeline and in the article, which launches our native audio player.
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Pricing
Please note that there is a cost involved with setting up and using Amazon Polly. Please get in contact with your Customer Success Manager to discuss before getting started.
Once you've spoken to your Customer Success Manager, our support team will configure text to speech for you and you'll be able to see it on all articles.
Amazon Voices
All you'll need to do is let us know which voice you'd like to use! You can see the full list here:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/voicelist.html
You can test them out here. We are happy to transcode a few articles of yours for you so that you can see just how good you think it is. If at any time you'd like to change the voice, you can. Old content will keep the voice it was configured with at the time of publishing, and new content will use the new voice.
Neural Text To Speech
Amazon also provides Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS), which we support. This is about 4 times the cost - let us know if you want this enabled.
Lexicons
We support Polly Lexicons. These should be provided as complete Lexicon files to our support team, who can upload them for you.
SSML and Newscaster
Currently we do not support Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) which means we cannot enable domains such as Newscaster. If you are interested in using this, drop a mail to support and we will consider adding it to our roadmap.
Exclusion
You are able to exclude certain types of content from the audio version of articles. This is possible according to specific HTML tags, for example you could exclude all blockquotes, or all figures (or both!). This can currently only be done across all content, so if you were to exclude the blockquote content type, that would be excluded for all articles, in all timelines.
You can also send a specific category from origin to ensure specific articles are excluded.
http://schema.pugpig.com/audio_creation = never
Note
In order to use text to speech, you cannot have strong security turned on. This is a feature that blocks sharing any app URLs (which would include the audio mp3 URLs used for text to speech) and won't be turned on unless you've asked us to do so.