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Amazon Polly Generative Engine Upgraded, Introducing Kokoro TTS for AI Agents

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a major upgrade to its Amazon Polly generative engine, a claim primarily reported by the company itself. This enhancement introduces new capabilities, including the Kokoro Text-to-Speech (TTS) model for low-latency speech in AI agents on Amazon SageMaker AI. Unite.AI further specified that the upgrade includes 14 new voices.

3 articles from 2 outlets covered this story. The underlying claim is sourced from a shipped.

What do all outlets agree on?

2 outlets covered “Amazon Polly Generative Engine Upgraded, Introducing Kokoro TTS for AI Agents”. All of them report the following:

  • Amazon Polly's generative engine received an upgrade
  • AWS is the vendor responsible for the upgrade
  • The upgrade enhances text-to-speech capabilities
  • Kokoro TTS is involved in providing low-latency speech for AI agents

Which outlets covered this?

All 3 articles found on this story, grouped by the stance of the piece. Every link goes to the original publisher.

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Amazon Polly delivers a major upgrade to its Generative engineoriginalAWS Machine Learning Blog · company statement

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