Using Amazon Polly
Before you Start
- Recommend you have Grammarly (free) installed on your PC
After you login to the console,
- Type in Polly for the “find services” you are looking for.
- Select Amazon Polly
- Be sure your region is N. Virginia (upper bar – right side)
Setting up Polly – must do this every time you enter
- Center left: Select the “Engine” – should be ‘Neural’
- Select the Language and Region
- For Missah
- English, UK – Amy
- For Justin
- English, US – Matthew
- For Missah
Using Polly:
- Copy the text you have written into the ‘Plain Text’ Box
- Press Clear text first
- Then copy and paste
- Look for Grammarly edits and accept what makes sense
- Listen and adjust
- Press Listen to speech
- Edit as makes sense
- Be sure to insert commas (,) when the speech is too fast, or needs a break.
- Be sure to keep the text in your ‘word’ doc synced with the changes you make – and that the final ‘word’ text for the slide matches the speech
- Produce the audio
- After you are satisfied with the audio, press ‘download mp3’
- The file will be in your download folder
- Copy it to the folder you have created for the lesson – see file administration below
- Rename to chXX_slide_YY_ZZ_audio – will be an .mp3 file
- XX = chapter number – 08 in this case
- YY = slide number – for the entire course
- ZZ = slide number – for the lesson
Updating the PowerPoint
- Administration of files
- For each lesson, create a separate folder under the chapter – look at Day2_Topic_2_emscare_ch30_Patients… for examples
- Day2-Topic_7_emscare_ch08_Pharmacology
- Lesson Folder: Ch08_slide_44_51 (example – starts at slide 44 – ends at slide 51)
- As you produce each slide – use the format as above
- Once all the audio files are produced – be sure to copy them to Amazon WorkDocs
- Day2-Topic_7_emscare_ch08_Pharmacology
- For each lesson, create a separate folder under the chapter – look at Day2_Topic_2_emscare_ch30_Patients… for examples
- Updating the PowerPoint
- After the audio is produced for all the slides in the lesson, they need to be inserted in the slides
- In the PowerPoint for the Course
- Copy the Audio text into the slide notes section (recommend you do this as you are creating the audio so you have a backup to the ‘word’ doc in the PowerPoint
- Insert the Audio into the slide
- In the PowerPoint Menu Bar – Select Insert
- In the Media section (on the far right usually) – select Audio à Audio on my PC
- Select the file on PC – double click
- Play it to be sure it is correct
- Reduce the size of the ‘speaker icon’ to where it fits in the lower left hand quadrant of the guide bars – about ¼ original size
- Move the icon to just under the EMS Care logo in the upper right hand corner of the slide