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diff --git a/aws-polly.py b/aws-polly.py
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+# https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/get-started-what-next.html
+
+"""Getting Started Example for Python 2.7+/3.3+"""
+from boto3 import Session
+from botocore.exceptions import BotoCoreError, ClientError
+from contextlib import closing
+import os
+import sys
+import subprocess
+from tempfile import gettempdir
+
+# Create a client using the credentials and region defined in the [polly-windows]
+# section of the AWS credentials file (~/.aws/credentials).
+session = Session(profile_name="polly-windows")
+polly = session.client("polly")
+
+try:
+    # Request speech synthesis
+    response = polly.synthesize_speech(Text="hello sexy, you're my master!", OutputFormat="mp3",
+                                        VoiceId="Justin")
+except (BotoCoreError, ClientError) as error:
+    # The service returned an error, exit gracefully
+    print(error)
+    sys.exit(-1)
+
+# Access the audio stream from the response
+if "AudioStream" in response:
+    # Note: Closing the stream is important because the service throttles on the
+    # number of parallel connections. Here we are using contextlib.closing to
+    # ensure the close method of the stream object will be called automatically
+    # at the end of the with statement's scope.
+    with closing(response["AudioStream"]) as stream:
+        output = os.path.join(gettempdir(), "speech.mp3")
+
+        try:
+        # Open a file for writing the output as a binary stream
+            with open(output, "wb") as file:
+                file.write(stream.read())
+        except IOError as error:
+            # Could not write to file, exit gracefully
+            print(error)
+            sys.exit(-1)
+
+else:
+    # The response didn't contain audio data, exit gracefully
+    print("Could not stream audio")
+    sys.exit(-1)
+
+# Play the audio using the platform's default player
+if sys.platform == "win32":
+    os.startfile(output)
+else:
+    # The following works on macOS and Linux. (Darwin = mac, xdg-open = linux).
+    opener = "open" if sys.platform == "darwin" else "xdg-open"
+    subprocess.call([opener, output])
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