Amazon Polly

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Here's an example on how to access Amazon Polly. Make sure you set region, accesskey, secretkey and voice variables correctly.

This has been tested on the latest RC1 firmware, but you also need to install package updates to have support for sha256 function:
Standard LM: https://dl.openrb.com/misc/luaencdec_20170426_mxs.ipk
LM power version: https://dl.openrb.com/misc/luaencdec_20170426_imx6.ipk

Code:

function getpollyurl(text)
 -- CONFIG VARIABLES
 local region = 'eu-west-1' -- your AWS region
 local accesskey = 'xxx'
 local secretkey = 'yyy'
 local voice = 'Joey' -- list of voices: https://aws.amazon.com/polly/details/

 -- same as JS encodeURIComponent
 local function encode(str)
   return (str:gsub("[^%w%-_%.%!%~%*%'%(%)]", function(c)
     return string.format("%%%02X", c:byte(1,1))
   end))
 end

 function toquerystring(items)
   local res = {}
   for _, item in ipairs(items) do
     res[ #res + 1 ] = item[ 1 ] .. '=' .. encode(item[ 2 ])
   end
   return table.concat(res, '&')
 end

 function getkey(key, datestamp, regionname, servicename)
   local kdate = encdec.hmacsha256(datestamp, 'AWS4' .. key, true)
   local kregion = encdec.hmacsha256(regionname, kdate, true)
   local kservice = encdec.hmacsha256(servicename, kregion, true)
   return encdec.hmacsha256('aws4_request', kservice, true)
 end

 local encdec = require('encdec')
 local method = 'GET'
 local service = 'polly'
 local host = service .. '.' .. region .. '.amazonaws.com'
 local api = '/v1/speech'
 local endpoint = 'https://' .. host .. api
 local amzdate = os.date('!%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ')
 local datestamp = os.date('!%Y%m%d')
 local algorithm = 'AWS4-HMAC-SHA256'
 local canonicaluri = api
 local canonicalheaders = 'host:' .. host
 local signedheaders = 'host'
 local credentialscope = datestamp .. '/' .. region .. '/' .. service .. '/' .. 'aws4_request'
 local canonicalquerystring = toquerystring({
   { 'OutputFormat', 'mp3' },
   { 'Text', text },
   { 'TextType', 'text' },
   { 'VoiceId', voice },
   { 'X-Amz-Algorithm', algorithm },
   { 'X-Amz-Credential', accesskey .. '/' .. credentialscope },
   { 'X-Amz-Date', amzdate },
   { 'X-Amz-SignedHeaders', signedheaders },
 })
 local payloadhash = encdec.sha256('')
 local canonicalrequest = table.concat({
   method,
   api,
   canonicalquerystring,
   canonicalheaders,
   '',
   signedheaders,
   payloadhash
 }, '\n')
 local stringtosign = table.concat({
   algorithm,
   amzdate,
   credentialscope,
   encdec.sha256(canonicalrequest)
 }, '\n')
 local signingkey = getkey(secretkey, datestamp, region, service)
 local signature = encdec.hmacsha256(stringtosign, signingkey)

 return endpoint .. '?' .. canonicalquerystring .. '&X-Amz-Signature=' .. signature
end

url = getpollyurl('testing polly from logic machine')

require('ssl.https')
res, status = ssl.https.request(url)
if res then
 -- res contains the mp3 file
else
 alert('Polly request failed: ' .. tostring(status))
end

Hi admin,
Thanks a lot! I can confirm that it works as expected on RC1...
BR, Bart