"Amazon Polly is useful because it's helpful to hear the words on top of it when I can't take in information in a general way. Sometimes, it's very taxing if I'm trying to read cases. They have the neural voices, and they're so realistic. You don't even know that a person is not reading to you, making things much better. I know that they do have the ability to provide you with your own lexicon that's personal to you. I like that you can adjust the pitch and the speed of the voice because some people talk way too fast. Or if you're reading, I read slowly, so that's always helpful. One of the functions that I find helpful is that when reading material on the web, it's like it has its own browser. You go to the URL, and you don't have to read the whole thing, and you can stick the cursor on the place where you want it to start. Then if you want it to skip over something, you put it somewhere else, and that's ideal for reading case law because you skip around a lot. You don't really read it from start to finish. It helps if someone's going to read all those citations because they definitely want to be able to skip that."
"It's not complex to set up."
"The price could be better. I wish it weren't so expensive to do because it's really cool. I would love to see them have lexicon packages of them like, this is for lawyers, this is for accountants, and it's going to have a lot of things in it. I also think they could do a better job at showing use cases other than telemarketing or contact center stuff like bots that are very commercial. I know that's where the money is, but it's such a huge hole that's missing for people with disabilities that are even worse than mine. Some people cannot see or hear at all, but they're not just cognitively impaired."
"We had some problems with Dialogflow."
Amazon Polly is ranked 1st in Text-To-Speech Services with 1 review while Google Cloud Text-to-Speech is ranked 2nd in Text-To-Speech Services with 1 review. Amazon Polly is rated 7.0, while Google Cloud Text-to-Speech is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Amazon Polly writes "A text to spoken audio solution with a realistic neural voice feature, but the price could be better". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud Text-to-Speech writes "Easy to set up and great for various languages but the sentiment analysis needs work". Amazon Polly is most compared with Microsoft Azure Speech Service and IBM Watson Text To Speech, whereas Google Cloud Text-to-Speech is most compared with Microsoft Azure Speech Service and IBM Watson Text To Speech.
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