lucashanke / PollyannaSpeechBot

Telegram Text-to-Speech bot using Amazon Polly

Pollyanna

A Telegram Text-to-Speech bot using Amazon Polly.

Available as a demo on Telegram as @PollyannaBot.

Commands

• Convert text to speech and send it as an audio: /s text
• Change the voice: /v Amy
• List available voices: /voices

Configuration

1. Install the required packages

   npm install
   

2. Copy config.json.example to config.json and enter your credentials from AWS Polly and Telegram

   • Get your AWS access key and secret using IAM
   • Send a message to @BotFather to create a Telegram bot and get the token

3. Start the bot

   npm start
   

Inspiration

This bot was inspired by the original @SpeechBot from lasermarty/SpeechBot, which sadly does not work anymore.