# SynthesizeSpeech
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The following Python code example uses the AWS SDK for Python (Boto) synthesize speech with shorter texts for near real-time processing. For more information, see the reference for the [SynthesizeSpeech](API_SynthesizeSpeech.md) operation. 

This example uses a short string of plain text. You can use SSML text for more control over the output. For more information, see [Generating speech from SSML documents](ssml.md).

```
import boto3

polly_client = boto3.Session(
                aws_access_key_id=,                     
    aws_secret_access_key=,
    region_name='us-west-2').client('polly')

response = polly_client.synthesize_speech(VoiceId='Joanna',
                OutputFormat='mp3', 
                Text = 'This is a sample text to be synthesized.',
                Engine = 'neural')

file = open('speech.mp3', 'wb')
file.write(response['AudioStream'].read())
file.close()
```