Speak

Go lang console text to amazon polly speech audio

Install AWS CLI

You need AWS CLI on your computer and access to polly by default Im running polly in us-east-1

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html

https://aws.amazon.com/polly/

🚀 Run

By default im using the voiceId Takumi to translate to japanese but it can be changed to other languages keep reading to learn how

go run speak.go -say こんにちわ

or

go run speak.go -say="こんにちわ"

🏁 check the result inside the audio folder

.
└── tmp
      └── さよなら.mp3

cd audio/

🚀 Run with other languages

check https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/voicelist.html for more voiceIds

go run speak.go -say="bonjour je m'appelle Celine" -voiceId Celine

🏁 check the result inside the audio folder

.
└── tmp
      └── bonjour je m'appelle Celine.mp3

cd audio/