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

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
• 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