In today's world, there are so many sources available to convert text files into audio ones. I will show you one way to it using Amazon Web Services. You just require a little bit of knowledge to AWS and Done! Also, if you know Python then you can also tweak the code and explore the things.

Here is a step by step tutorial to convert Text file into Audio files.

This will a demonstration of Amazon Polly which converts your given text file into Speech. Strange thing is that it is almost free. Amazon doen’t charges you to first 1 million words.

Just follow steps and I will guide you to that.

Prerequisites

• Little knowledge of AWS.
• Enthusiasm to learn.

Input

• text: Just write some paragraph of whatever length.
• Create one S3 bucket. (Give Amazon Polly permission to write in S3)(AWS Doc)
• Select your favourite voice for given language as input. (Voice List )

Steps to run

1. Install boto3

pip install boto3

2. Install AWS CLI and configure credentials

aws configure

OR

put below code into ~/.aws/credentials

[default]

aws_access_key_id = YOUR_ACCESS_KEY

aws_secret_access_key = YOUR_SECRET_KEY

region=us-east-1

3. Create S3 bucket and Create Role for Polly AWS Doc
4. Clone https://github.com/ganatradeval/AmazonPolly.git.
5. Specify variables in polly.py file.
6. Run following.

cd AmazonPolly

python polly.py