Correct Answer: 2

With Amazon Polly’s custom lexicons or vocabularies, you can modify the pronunciation of particular words, such as company names, acronyms, foreign words, and neologisms (e.g., “ROTFL”, “C’est la vie” when spoken in a non-French voice). To customize these pronunciations, you upload an XML file with lexical entries. For example, you can customize the pronunciation of the Filipino word: “Pilipinas” by using the phoneme element in your input XML.

Pronunciation lexicons enable you to customize the pronunciation of words. Amazon Polly provides API operations that you can use to store lexicons in an AWS region. Those lexicons are then specific to that particular region. 

The following are examples of ways to use lexicons with speech synthesis engines:

– Common words are sometimes stylized with numbers taking the place of letters, as with “g3t sm4rt” (get smart). Humans can read these words correctly. However, a Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine reads the text literally, pronouncing the name exactly as it is spelled. This is where you can leverage lexicons to customize the synthesized speech by using Amazon Polly. In this example, you can specify an alias (get smart) for the word “g3t sm4rt” in the lexicon.

– Your text might include an acronym, such as W3C. You can use a lexicon to define an alias for the word W3C so that it is read in the full, expanded form (World Wide Web Consortium).

Lexicons give you additional control over how Amazon Polly pronounces words uncommon to the selected language. For example, you can specify the pronunciation using a phonetic alphabet. 

Hence, the correct answer is: Use pronunciation lexicons.

The option that says: Use a viseme Speech Mark is incorrect as this feature is just used to synchronize speech with facial animation (lip-syncing) or to highlight written words as they’re spoken.

The option that says: Convert the scripts into Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) and use the pronunciation tag is incorrect because Amazon Polly does not support this SSML tag.

The option that says: Convert the documents into Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) and use the emphasis tag to guide the pronunciation is incorrect as this type of tag is simply used to emphasize words by changing the speaking rate and volume of the speech.

References:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/managing-lexicons.html
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/create-accessible-training-with-initiafy-and-amazon-polly/

Note: This question was extracted from our AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty Practice Exams.