SpeakIT: A Text to Speech Converter using AWS Polly

This is text-to-speech converter using AWS Polly service. It is a simple web application that takes text as input and converts it to speech.

Live Site

The project is hosted on Netlify and can be accessed here.

Features

• Text to speech conversion
• Listen to the audio directly
• Download the speech as an audio file
• Progress bar to show the audio playing progress

Tech Stack

• React.js
• AWS Polly

Prerequisites

• AWS Account
• AWS IAM user with a access key and secret key
• AWS AmazonPollyFullAccess policy granted to the IAM user

Don't worry AWS free tier grants 5 million characters per month (for using AWS Polly) for the first 12 months.

Local Setup

• Clone the repository
• Install node modules using npm install
• Create a .env file in the root directory and add the following environment variables:

REACT_APP_CLIENTID=<your_aws_access_key_id>
REACT_APP_SECRETKEY=<your_aws_secret_access_key>
REACT_APP_REGION=<your_aws_region>

Run Locally

• Run the application using npm start
• Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

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