Case Study: Spokata achieves real-time, universally accessible news audio with Amazon Polly

How Spokata uses Amazon Polly to make news and information universally accessible as real-time audio

Spokata is an automated audio platform that turns text‑based news and information into short, real‑time audio for publisher websites, mobile apps, Amazon Echo and terrestrial radio. Faced with the need to process and deliver thousands of articles at scale while keeping production costs near‑zero and audio quality natural and fast, Spokata selected Amazon Polly as its text‑to‑speech engine to meet strict requirements for voice quality, pronunciation, speed, and scalability.

Spokata’s pipeline automatically summarizes articles (reducing length by about 80%), then uses Amazon Polly to generate MP3 files stored in Amazon S3 and delivered via Amazon CloudFront and EC2; publishers enable the player with a few lines of JavaScript or an API call. The result is near‑instant, high‑quality streaming audio that publishers can produce for pennies instead of dollars, enabling real‑time distribution to multiple endpoints (including Alexa) at scale and positioning Spokata to process and serve millions of articles and users using Amazon Polly.

Spokata

Zack Sherman

Founder