Amazon Polly introduces Takumi, a new neural Japanese male voice

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAmazon Polly introduces Takumi, a new neural Japanese male voice Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of a neural version of Takumi, Polly’s Japanese male text to speech (TTS) voice. Takumi neural TTS sounds natural, friendly and smooth. With this launch,…

AWS Lambda use cases: 6 inspirational examples

By Dustin Ward

Since being launched in 2014, the AWS Lambda service has spread fast amongst developers and cloud architects, for it is easy to use, and there is a significant cost benefit (pay-per-use basis).  AWS Lambda is an Amazon Web Services serverless deployment platform that you can use in the AWS cloud environment with basically no overhead. It will save you much…