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Quartz Bot Studio / John Keefe
/ Aug 28“Three times a day, or when news breaks, the written words from five stories are sent to a text-to-speech service called Polly, another Amazon product. ‘Brian’ and ‘Kendra’ are two of many voices available on the Polly service. In mere moments, we get back an .mp3 audio file for each story, with the written words converted into synthesized speech. That audio becomes the newscast.” —
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Amazon Echo,
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