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Amazon Polly Lexicons API

The Lexicons API from Amazon Polly — 2 operation(s) for lexicons.

Amazon Polly Lexicons API is one of 5 APIs that Amazon Polly publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Lexicons. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, pricing, a getting-started guide, and rate-limit docs.

This API exposes 4 operations across 2 paths, and defines 26 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against 4 base URLs: http://polly.{region}.amazonaws.com, https://polly.{region}.amazonaws.com, http://polly.{region}.amazonaws.com.cn, https://polly.{region}.amazonaws.com.cn.

4 operations 2 paths 26 schemas 1 DELETE2 GET1 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://polly.amazonaws.com
Authentication
API Key
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Amazon Polly Lexicons API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (hmac). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • hmac — Amazon Signature authorization v4

Paths & Operations 4

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Lexicons 4
DELETE
/v1/lexicons/{LexiconName}
Amazon Polly Delete Lexicon
DeleteLexicon 8 params → 200480481
GET
/v1/lexicons/{LexiconName}
Amazon Polly Get Lexicon
GetLexicon 8 params → 200480481
PUT
/v1/lexicons/{LexiconName}
Amazon Polly Put Lexicon
PutLexicon 8 params body → 200480481482483484485486
GET
/v1/lexicons
Amazon Polly List Lexicons
ListLexicons 8 params → 200480481

Schemas 26

The contract defines 26 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are LexiconAttributes (6 properties), LexiconDescription (2 properties), ListLexiconsOutput (2 properties), Lexicon (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

LexiconContent
string
MaxLexiconsNumberExceededException
LexiconDescriptionList
array
Alphabet
string
InvalidLexiconException
LexiconSizeExceededException
LexiconNotFoundException
GetLexiconOutput
object
2 properties
Size
integer
ListLexiconsOutput
object
2 properties
InvalidNextTokenException
LexiconAttributes
object
Contains metadata describing the lexicon such as the number of lexemes, language code, and so on. For more information, see Managing Lexicons .
6 properties
LastModified
string
NextToken
string
LexiconArn
string
LexiconName
string
Lexicon
object
Provides lexicon name and lexicon content in string format. For more information, see Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0 .
2 properties
UnsupportedPlsAlphabetException
PutLexiconOutput
object
UnsupportedPlsLanguageException
DeleteLexiconOutput
object
ServiceFailureException
LexemesCount
integer
MaxLexemeLengthExceededException
LanguageCode
string
LexiconDescription
object
Describes the content of the lexicon.
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

amazon-polly-lexicons-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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