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Voice - Amazon Polly

Description of the voice.

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AdditionalLanguageCodes

Additional codes for languages available for the specified voice in addition to its default language.

For example, the default language for Aditi is Indian English (en-IN) because it was first used for that language. Since Aditi is bilingual and fluent in both Indian English and Hindi, this parameter would show the code hi-IN.

Type: Array of strings

Valid Values: arb | cmn-CN | cy-GB | da-DK | de-DE | en-AU | en-GB | en-GB-WLS | en-IN | en-US | es-ES | es-MX | es-US | fr-CA | fr-FR | is-IS | it-IT | ja-JP | hi-IN | ko-KR | nb-NO | nl-NL | pl-PL | pt-BR | pt-PT | ro-RO | ru-RU | sv-SE | tr-TR | en-NZ | en-ZA | ca-ES | de-AT | yue-CN | ar-AE | fi-FI | en-IE | nl-BE | fr-BE | cs-CZ | de-CH

Required: No

Gender

Gender of the voice.

Type: String

Valid Values: Female | Male

Required: No

Id

Amazon Polly assigned voice ID. This is the ID that you specify when calling the SynthesizeSpeech operation.

Type: String

Valid Values: Aditi | Amy | Astrid | Bianca | Brian | Camila | Carla | Carmen | Celine | Chantal | Conchita | Cristiano | Dora | Emma | Enrique | Ewa | Filiz | Gabrielle | Geraint | Giorgio | Gwyneth | Hans | Ines | Ivy | Jacek | Jan | Joanna | Joey | Justin | Karl | Kendra | Kevin | Kimberly | Lea | Liv | Lotte | Lucia | Lupe | Mads | Maja | Marlene | Mathieu | Matthew | Maxim | Mia | Miguel | Mizuki | Naja | Nicole | Olivia | Penelope | Raveena | Ricardo | Ruben | Russell | Salli | Seoyeon | Takumi | Tatyana | Vicki | Vitoria | Zeina | Zhiyu | Aria | Ayanda | Arlet | Hannah | Arthur | Daniel | Liam | Pedro | Kajal | Hiujin | Laura | Elin | Ida | Suvi | Ola | Hala | Andres | Sergio | Remi | Adriano | Thiago | Ruth | Stephen | Kazuha | Tomoko | Niamh | Sofie | Lisa | Isabelle | Zayd | Danielle | Gregory | Burcu | Jitka | Sabrina

Required: No

LanguageCode

Language code of the voice.

Type: String

Valid Values: arb | cmn-CN | cy-GB | da-DK | de-DE | en-AU | en-GB | en-GB-WLS | en-IN | en-US | es-ES | es-MX | es-US | fr-CA | fr-FR | is-IS | it-IT | ja-JP | hi-IN | ko-KR | nb-NO | nl-NL | pl-PL | pt-BR | pt-PT | ro-RO | ru-RU | sv-SE | tr-TR | en-NZ | en-ZA | ca-ES | de-AT | yue-CN | ar-AE | fi-FI | en-IE | nl-BE | fr-BE | cs-CZ | de-CH

Required: No

LanguageName

Human readable name of the language in English.

Type: String

Required: No

Name

Name of the voice (for example, Salli, Kendra, etc.). This provides a human readable voice name that you might display in your application.

Type: String

Required: No

SupportedEngines

Specifies which engines (standard, neural, long-form or generative) are supported by a given voice.

Type: Array of strings

Valid Values: standard | neural | long-form | generative

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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