| Type: | Package | 
| Title: | Client for AWS Polly | 
| Version: | 0.1.5 | 
| Date: | 2020-03-10 | 
| Description: | A client for AWS Polly http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/polly, a speech synthesis service. | 
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] | 
| URL: | https://github.com/cloudyr/aws.polly | 
| BugReports: | https://github.com/cloudyr/aws.polly/issues | 
| Imports: | httr, jsonlite, aws.signature (≥ 0.3.4), tuneR | 
| Encoding: | UTF-8 | 
| RoxygenNote: | 7.0.2 | 
| NeedsCompilation: | no | 
| Packaged: | 2020-03-11 11:57:40 UTC; asac | 
| Author: | Thomas J. Leeper  | 
| Maintainer: | Antoine Sachet <antoine.sac@gmail.com> | 
| Repository: | CRAN | 
| Date/Publication: | 2020-03-11 12:40:05 UTC | 
aws.polly
Description
Client for AWS Polly
Details
This is a client for AWS Polly, a speech synthesis service.
Author(s)
Thomas J. Leeper <thosjleeper@gmail.com>
See Also
Lexicons
Description
List, put, and delete lexicons
Usage
get_lexicon(lexicon, token, ...)
put_lexicon(lexicon, content, ...)
delete_lexicon(lexicon, ...)
Arguments
lexicon | 
 A character string specifying the name of a lexicon. If missing, a list of available lexicons is returned.  | 
token | 
 Optionally, a pagination token.  | 
... | 
 Additional arguments passed to   | 
content | 
 A character string containing the content of the PLS lexicon.  | 
Details
Note: put_lexicon will overwrite an existing lexicon with the same name.
Value
A list.
Examples
## Not run: 
list_lexicons()
## End(Not run)
Synthesize Speech
Description
Pass text to the synthesis API and return an audio file
Usage
get_synthesis(
  text,
  voice,
  format = c("mp3", "ogg_vorbis", "pcm"),
  rate = c(22050, 16000, 8000),
  lexicon = NULL,
  ssml = FALSE,
  ...
)
synthesize(text, voice, ...)
Arguments
text | 
 Either a plain text character string (maximum 1500 characters) or a character string containing SSML (  | 
voice | 
 A character string specifying the name of an AWS Polly voice. See   | 
format | 
 A character string specifying an output file format.  | 
rate | 
 An integer value specifying the audio frequency in Hertz.  | 
lexicon | 
 Optionally, a character vector (max length 5) specifying the names of lexicons to apply during synthesis. See   | 
ssml | 
 A logical indicating whether   | 
... | 
 Additional arguments passed to   | 
Value
get_synthesis returns a raw vector (i.e., the bytes representing the audio as the requested file format). synthesize is a convenience wrapper around that, which returns an object of class “Wave” (see Wave).
Examples
## Not run: 
hello <- synthesize("hello world!", voice = "Geraint")
if (interactive() & require("tuneR")) {
    try(play(hello))
}
## End(Not run)
List available voices
Description
Retrieve a list of available voices
Usage
list_voices(language = "en-US", token, ...)
Arguments
language | 
 An ISO 3166 country identification tag.  | 
token | 
 Optionally, a pagination token.  | 
... | 
 Additional arguments passed to   | 
Value
A data frame of available names.
Examples
## Not run: 
list_voices(language = "cy-GB")
## End(Not run)
Execute AWS Polly API Request
Description
This is the workhorse function to execute calls to the Polly API.
Usage
pollyHTTP(
  action,
  query = list(),
  headers = list(),
  body = NULL,
  verb = c("GET", "POST", "PUT", "DELETE"),
  version = "v1",
  raw_response = if (verb == "POST") TRUE else FALSE,
  verbose = getOption("verbose", FALSE),
  region = Sys.getenv("AWS_DEFAULT_REGION", "us-east-1"),
  key = NULL,
  secret = NULL,
  session_token = NULL,
  ...
)
Arguments
action | 
 A character string specifying the API action to take  | 
query | 
 An optional named list containing query string parameters and their character values.  | 
headers | 
 A list of headers to pass to the HTTP request.  | 
body | 
 A request body  | 
verb | 
 A character string specifying the HTTP verb to implement.  | 
version | 
 A character string specifying the API version.  | 
raw_response | 
 A logical indicating whether to return the raw response body.  | 
verbose | 
 A logical indicating whether to be verbose. Default is given by   | 
region | 
 A character string specifying an AWS region. See   | 
key | 
 A character string specifying an AWS Access Key. See   | 
secret | 
 A character string specifying an AWS Secret Key. See   | 
session_token | 
 Optionally, a character string specifying an AWS temporary Session Token to use in signing a request. See   | 
... | 
 Additional arguments passed to   | 
Details
This function constructs and signs an Polly API request and returns the results thereof, or relevant debugging information in the case of error.
Value
If successful, a named list. Otherwise, a data structure of class “aws-error” containing any error message(s) from AWS and information about the request attempt.
Author(s)
Thomas J. Leeper