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,…

Introducing AWS AppConfig Feature Flags In Preview

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedIntroducing AWS AppConfig Feature Flags In Preview Modern DevOps practices require development teams to continuously iterate their applications based on customer feedback. These iterations are mostly comprised of the introduction of new features within the application, or tuning the applications to cope with operational events such as limit increases or improving fault tolerance. Feature…