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Introduction to Amazon Artificial Intelligence Services

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Artificial intelligence is everywhere, there’s machine learning, supervised and unsupervised, there’s large language models and then there’s data science, etc, etc… If you are a dev, where do you even start? Fortunately, AWS has simplified artificial intelligence processes into easily consumable services. And, in this multipart series, we’ll take you through some introductory tutorials to start you on the path of learning how to use Amazon artificial intelligence services.

Introduction to Amazon Polly

Amazon Polly uses deep learning to synthesize human speech from text. With Amazon Polly you can convert meeting notes, research papers and magazine and newspaper articles to a digital audio format. And, with support for various voices and dozens of languages, Amazon Polly can bring your textual content to life in minutes.

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The Solution

In this tutorial, we’ll bring you through a simple example where we show you how to synthesize speech from text and store the synthesized speech in a digital audio format like MP3.

Introduction to Amazon Translate

Amazon Translate is an AWS machine learning service that is based upon deep learning and let’s you translate textual data from one language, to another. Amazon Translate has support for 75 different languages and can be used for translating meeting notes, translating telephone transcripts, or providing website search constructs in various languages.

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The Solution

In this tutorial, we’ll bring you through a simple example where we show you how to translate textual data from English to Spanish.