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I do not intend to write this story just because everyone is talking about AI, the artificial intelligence. In fact, I wanted to share a practical application of AI, which really helped me in enhancing my digital content.
This is about the Udemy course which I created a while back — Microservices Architecture — A Comprehensive Overview. Though it has a good rating overall, I got some serious comments about my language skills — my delivery style, pronunciation, grammar, accent, etcetera. With an Indian (south asian) background, this was something I could not change easily. And this was restricting my course adoption, across the world. I realized one thing, that American way of speaking english has become a de facto standard. And, If I expect my course to go global, I must have this in place. While looking for the solution, I landed up with an AI tool called AWS Polly.
AWS Polly is offered by Amazon Web Services and it provides Text to Speech software. With this you can generate speech in dozens of languages. It uses deep learning technologies to synthesize natural-sounding human speech. I am sure there are many other software like this in the market. For me, Polly provided an easy to use interface, with multiple voices and the options to customize. This was good enough for me to get hooked up with Polly.
