Audio

Just for the sheer joy of it, here is a simple C# program that encodes Morse code messages and plays them on Windows and Linux.

A fun post for Pi day.

Amazon Transcribe provides two ways to identify speakers in a piece of audio. In this post, you will see how to use speaker identification to distinguish between the voices of two people.

Amazon Transcribe provides two ways to identify speakers in a piece of audio. In this post you will see how to use channel identification to identify speakers. In a subsequent post I will show how to use speaker identification for cases where you don’t have the speakers on separate channels.

Speech to text is now as simple as uploading a file, starting a transcription job, and waiting for the results.

Amazon Polly can convert text to speech in a variety of voices. In this post, I’ll use it to read a file containing a dialogue from the play Julius Caesar where Cassius and Brutus discuss Caesar, using a different voice for each speaker.

It’s easy to string together Amazon Translate and Amazon Polly to translate text, and then speak it in a different language.

Using Amazon Polly to convert text to speech is very easy, with a small .NET console application you can send the text to Amazon and play it on your computer.