StartSpeechSynthesisTask

The following Python code example uses the Amazon SDK for Python (Boto) to list the lexicons in your account in the region specified in your local Amazon configuration. For information about creating the configuration file, see Setting up the Amazon CLI.

For more information, see the reference for StartSpeechSynthesisTask API.

import boto3
import time

polly_client = boto3.Session(
                aws_access_key_id='',                  
    aws_secret_access_key='',
    region_name='eu-west-2').client('polly')

response = polly_client.start_speech_synthesis_task(VoiceId='Joanna',
                OutputS3BucketName='synth-books-buckets',
                OutputS3KeyPrefix='key',
                OutputFormat='mp3', 
                Text='This is a sample text to be synthesized.',
                Engine='neural')

taskId = response['SynthesisTask']['TaskId']

print( "Task id is {} ".format(taskId))

task_status = polly_client.get_speech_synthesis_task(TaskId = taskId)

print(task_status)