Amazon Polly

The amazon_polly text-to-speech platform that works with Amazon Polly to create the spoken output. Polly is a paid service via Amazon Web Services. There is a free tier for the first 12 months and then a charge per million characters afterwards.

To get started, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml (example for Amazon Polly):

# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
  - platform: amazon_polly
    aws_access_key_id: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
    aws_secret_access_key: AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
    profile_name: AWS_PROFILE
    region_name: 'us-east-1'
    voice: Joanna

Configuration variables:

Parameter	Value	Description
`aws_access_key_id`	Required	Your AWS Access Key ID. For more information, please read the AWS General Reference regarding Security Credentials. If provided, you must also provide an `aws_secret_access_key` and must not provide a `profile_name`
`aws_secret_access_key`	Required	Your AWS Secret Access Key. For more information, please read the AWS General Reference regarding Security Credentials. If provided, you must also provide an `aws_access_key_id` and must not provide a `profile_name`.
`profile_name`	Optional	A credentials profile name. For more information, please see the boto3 Documentation for more information.
`region_name`	Optional	The region identifier to connect to. The default is `us-east-1`.
`name`	Optional	Setting the optional parameter `name` allows multiple notifiers to be created. The default value is `notify`. The notifier will bind to the service `notify.NOTIFIER_NAME`.
`text_type`	text/ssml	text or ssml: Specify wherever to use text (default) or ssml markup by default.
`voice`	Optional	Voice name to be used. See the Amazon Documentation for available voices.
`output_format`	mp3/ogg_vorbis/pcm	Override the default output format, defaults to MP3.
`sample_rate`	8000/16000/22050	Override the default sample rate, defaults to 22050 for MP3 and Ogg Vorbis, 16000 for pcm.

Usage

Say to all media_player device entities:

- service: tts.amazon_polly_say
  data_template:
    message: '<speak>Hello from Amazon Polly</speak>'

- service: tts.amazon_polly_say
  data_template:
    message: >
      <speak>
          Hello from Amazon Polly
      </speak>

Say to the media_player.living_room device entity:

- service: tts.amazon_polly_say
  data_template:
    entity_id: media_player.living_room
    message: >
      <speak>
          Hello from Amazon Polly
      </speak>

Say with break:

- service: tts.amazon_polly_say
  data_template:
    message: >
      <speak>
          Hello from
          <break time=".9s" />
          Amazon Polly
      </speak>