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Amazon Polly SynthesisTasks API

The SynthesisTasks API from Amazon Polly — 2 operation(s) for synthesistasks.

Amazon Polly SynthesisTasks 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 Synthesis Tasks. 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 3 operations across 2 paths, and defines 38 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.

3 operations 2 paths 38 schemas 2 GET1 POST

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 SynthesisTasks 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 3

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 2 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

SynthesisTasks 3
GET
/v1/synthesisTasks/{TaskId}
Amazon Polly Get Speech Synthesis Task
GetSpeechSynthesisTask 8 params → 200480481482
GET
/v1/synthesisTasks
Amazon Polly List Speech Synthesis Tasks
ListSpeechSynthesisTasks 10 params → 200480481
POST
/v1/synthesisTasks
Amazon Polly Start Speech Synthesis Task
StartSpeechSynthesisTask 7 params body → 200480481482483484485486

Schemas 38

The contract defines 38 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are SynthesisTask (15 properties), ListSpeechSynthesisTasksOutput (2 properties), GetSpeechSynthesisTaskOutput (1 property), StartSpeechSynthesisTaskOutput (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

InvalidS3KeyException
SpeechMarkTypeList
array
EngineNotSupportedException
InvalidSnsTopicArnException
SynthesisTaskNotFoundException
StartSpeechSynthesisTaskOutput
object
1 property
DateTime
string
TaskStatus
string
Engine
string
LexiconNotFoundException
SynthesisTask
object
SynthesisTask object that provides information about a speech synthesis task.
15 properties
OutputUri
string
SnsTopicArn
string
InvalidNextTokenException
LexiconNameList
array
TaskStatusReason
string
OutputFormat
string
SampleRate
string
ListSpeechSynthesisTasksOutput
object
2 properties
InvalidSsmlException
GetSpeechSynthesisTaskOutput
object
1 property
TaskId
string
MarksNotSupportedForFormatException
InvalidSampleRateException
SsmlMarksNotSupportedForTextTypeException
NextToken
string
InvalidS3BucketException
LexiconName
string
TextLengthExceededException
LanguageNotSupportedException
ServiceFailureException
TextType
string
SynthesisTasks
array
SpeechMarkType
string
RequestCharacters
integer
InvalidTaskIdException
LanguageCode
string
VoiceId
string

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

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

Other APIs Amazon Polly publishes across the network.

Amazon Polly Lexicons API
Amazon Polly Speech API
Amazon Polly Speech Synthesis API
Amazon Polly Voices API
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