# Voice
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Description of the voice.

## Contents
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 ** AdditionalLanguageCodes **   <a name="polly-Type-Voice-AdditionalLanguageCodes"></a>
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 | en-SG`   
Required: No

 ** Gender **   <a name="polly-Type-Voice-Gender"></a>
Gender of the voice.  
Type: String  
Valid Values: `Female | Male`   
Required: No

 ** Id **   <a name="polly-Type-Voice-Id"></a>
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 | Jasmine | Jihye | Ambre | Beatrice | Florian | Lennart | Lorenzo | Tiffany`   
Required: No

 ** LanguageCode **   <a name="polly-Type-Voice-LanguageCode"></a>
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 | en-SG`   
Required: No

 ** LanguageName **   <a name="polly-Type-Voice-LanguageName"></a>
Human readable name of the language in English.  
Type: String  
Required: No

 ** Name **   <a name="polly-Type-Voice-Name"></a>
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 **   <a name="polly-Type-Voice-SupportedEngines"></a>
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
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/polly-2016-06-10/Voice) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/polly-2016-06-10/Voice) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/polly-2016-06-10/Voice)