The following table describes important changes in each release of the Amazon Polly Developer Guide. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.
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Latest documentation update: February 18, 2025
| Change | Description | Date |
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New region added for neural and standard voices | Amazon Polly is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) AWS Region. This Region supports neural TTS (NTTS) and standard voices. For more information, see Neural voices and Standard voices. | March 27, 2025 |
New voice added for neural text-to-speech | Amazon Polly now provides one additional Korean voice: Jihye. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | March 26, 2025 |
New region added for neural and standard voices | Amazon Polly is now available in the Europe (Spain) AWS Region. This Region supports neural TTS (NTTS) and standard voices. For more information, see Neural voices and Standard voices. | February 18, 2025 |
New voice added for neural text-to-speech | Amazon Polly now provides one additional English (Singaporean) voice: Jasmine. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | February 11, 2025 |
New voices added for generative text-to-speech | Amazon Polly now provides seven new generative voices: Pedro, Andrés, Sergio, Daniel, Kajal, Rémi, Bianca. See Generative voices for a list of generative TTS voices. | November 21, 2024 |
New long-form voices added | Amazon Polly now provides more long-form voices. One additional English (US) and two new Spanish (Spain) long-form voices were added: Patrick, Alba, and Raúl. See Long-form voices for a list of all long-form voices. | November 14, 2024 |
New voices added for generative text-to-speech | Amazon Polly now provides six new generative voices: Ayanda, Léa, Lucia, Mía, Lupe, and Vicki. See Generative voices for a list of generative TTS voices. | November 6, 2024 |
New voices added for generative text-to-speech | Amazon Polly now provides four new generative voices: Olivia, Danielle, Joanna, and Stephen. See Generative voices for a list of generative TTS voices. | October 10, 2024 |
New languages added for text-to-speech | Amazon Polly now provides two new TTS languages: Czech (cs-CZ) and German (Swiss) (de-CH). See Supported languages for a list of languages. | September 26, 2024 |
New voices added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides two new NTTS voices: Jitka and Sabrina. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | August 27, 2024 |
New generative voice engine added | Amazon Polly now offers a generative voice engine designed for longer content, with three English voices in a generative variant: Amy, Matthew, and Ruth. See Generative voices for more information. | March 28, 2024 |
New voice added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides the NTTS Turkish voice Burcu. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | February 14, 2024 |
New long-form voice engine added | Amazon Polly now offers a long-form voice engine designed for longer content, with three en-US voices: Danielle, Gregory, and Ruth. See Long-form voices for more information. | November 16, 2023 |
New voices added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides two new NTTS US English voices: Danielle and Gregory. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | October 5, 2023 |
Amazon Polly for Windows | The Amazon Polly Windows Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI) plugin will no longer be supported. | September 26, 2023 |
Updated quota guidance for Amazon Polly | Updated Amazon Polly quotas guide. Added examples and clarification of terms. Refer to Quotas in Amazon Polly for the updates. | August 17, 2023 |
New voice added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides the Gulf Arabic NTTS voice Zayd. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | August 16, 2023 |
New voice added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides the Belgian French NTTS voice Isabelle. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | August 1, 2023 |
New voice added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides the Belgian Dutch (Flemish) NTTS voice Lisa. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | June 7, 2023 |
New voices added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides two new NTTS voices: Irish English (Niamh), and Danish (Sofie). See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | May 30, 2023 |
Updated the IAM guidance for Amazon Polly | Updated guide to align with the IAM best practices. For more information, see Security best practices in IAM. | April 19, 2023 |
WordPress update | The Amazon Polly WordPress plugin will no longer be supported. | April 6, 2023 |
New Region added | Amazon Polly is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) AWS Region. This Region supports neural TTS (NTTS). For more information, see Feature and Region Compatibility for a list of regions that support NTTS. | April 5, 2023 |
New voices added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides two new Japanese NTTS voices: Kazuha and Tomoko. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | February 7, 2023 |
New voices added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides two new US English NTTS voices: Stephen and Ruth. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | January 31, 2023 |
New voices added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides new NTTS voices for: Brazilian Portuguese (Thiago), Castilian Spanish (Sergio), French (Rémi), Italian (Adriano), and Mexican Spanish (Andrés). See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | January 24, 2023 |
New voices added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides NTTS voices for Arabic (Hala) and Polish (Ola). See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | November 17, 2022 |
Release AWS PrivateLink support | Amazon Polly now provides AWS PrivateLink support. See Using Amazon Polly with VPC endpoints to learn more. | November 9, 2022 |
New voices and languages added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides NTTS voices for Finnish (Suvi), Norwegian (Ida), and Swedish (Elin). See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | November 8, 2022 |
New voice added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides the Dutch NTTS voice Laura. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | November 2, 2022 |
New Region added | Amazon Polly is now available in the Europe (Paris) AWS Region. This Region supports neural TTS (NTTS). For more information, see Feature and Region Compatibility for a list of regions that support NTTS. | September 22, 2022 |
New voice and language added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides the Cantonese NTTS voice Hiujin. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | September 20, 2022 |
New Region added | Amazon Polly is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS Region. This Region supports neural TTS (NTTS). For more information, see Feature and Region Compatibility for a list of regions that support NTTS. | September 1, 2022 |
New voice added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides the Mandarin voice Zhiyu as an NTTS voice. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | August 23, 2022 |
New voice added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides the Hindi NTTS voice Kajal. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | July 27, 2022 |
New voices added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides NTTS voices for US Spanish (Pedro), German (Daniel), Canadian French (Liam), and UK English (Arthur). See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | June 28, 2022 |
New voice added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides the Portuguese (Brazilian) voice Vitória as an NTTS voice. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | April 27, 2022 |
New voice added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides the Portuguese (European) voice Inês as an NTTS voice. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | April 26, 2022 |
New voice and language added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides the German (Austrian) language and the NTTS voice Hannah. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | April 19, 2022 |
New voices and language added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides the Spanish (Mexican) voice Mia as an NTTS voice. A new language, Catalan, was added along with the NTTS voice Arlet. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | March 22, 2022 |
New voice added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides the Japanese voice Takumi as an NTTS voice. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | December 6, 2021 |
New voice added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides the French voice Léa as an NTTS voice. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | November 18, 2021 |
New voices added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides the Italian voice Bianca and the European Spanish voice Lucia as NTTS voices. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | November 8, 2021 |
New voice added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides a new South African English voice, Ayanda. The voice is available as an NTTS voice only. See Neural voices for a list of NTTS voices. | September 1, 2021 |
New Region added | Amazon Polly is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) AWS Region. This Region supports neural TTS (NTTS). For more information, see Feature and Region Compatibility for a list of regions that support NTTS. | September 1, 2021 |
New language and voice added | Amazon Polly now supports New Zealand English (en-NZ). A new NTTS voice, Aria, speaks New Zealand English and a selection of Maori words. | August 24, 2021 |
New feature | Amazon Polly makes the conversational speaking style the default version for the neural Matthew and Joanna voices. We removed references to the conversational speaking style. | June 28, 2021 |
New voice added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides the German voice Vicki as an NTTS voice. | June 15, 2021 |
New voice added | A new female voice, Gabrielle, has been added to the French (Canadian) (fr-CA) locale. The voice is high quality and only available as an NTTS voice. Like all neural voices, it is only available in certain regions. For a list of regions, see Feature and region compatibility. | June 1, 2021 |
New voice added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now provides the Korean voice Seoyeon as an NTTS voice. | May 11, 2021 |
New Region added for NTTS | Amazon Polly now supports neural TTS (NTTS) in the Canada (Central) AWS Region. For more information, see Feature and Region Compatibility for NTTS. | March 17, 2021 |
New voice available for newscaster style | In addition to the Matthew, Joanna, and Lupe voices for the Newscaster speaking style, Amazon Polly now provides an additional option for this speaking style. Using the neural engine, you can use the Amy voice in British English for the Newscaster style. For more information, see NTTS Speaking Styles. | November 10, 2020 |
New Regions added for NTTS | In addition to the existing Regions for NTTS (us-east-1, us-west-2, eu-west-1, and ap-southeast-2), neural voices are now supported in four additional Regions: (ap-northeast-1 (Tokyo), ap-southeast-1 (Singapore), eu-central-1 (Frankfurt), and eu-west-2 (London). For more information, see Feature and Region Compatibility for NTTS. | September 3, 2020 |
New voice added | In addition to child voices Ivy and Justin, a new male child voice, Kevin, has been added to American English (en-US). This new voice is very high quality and is only available as an NTTS voice. Like all neural voices, it is only supported in four Regions: us-east-1 (N. Virginia), us-west-2 (Oregon), eu-west-1 (Ireland), and ap-southeast-2 (Sydney). For more information, see NTTS Voices. | June 16, 2020 |
New voice available for newscaster style | In addition to the Matthew and Joanna voices for the Newscaster speaking style, Amazon Polly now provides an additional option for this speaking style. Using the neural engine, you can use the Lupe voice in Spanish (American) for the Newscaster style. For more information, see NTTS Speaking Styles. | April 16, 2020 |
New feature | In addition to the Newscaster speaking style, Amazon Polly now provides a second NTTS speaking style to help you synthesize even better text to speech passages. The Conversational style uses the neural system to generate speech in a more friendly and expressive conversational style that can be used in many use cases. For more information, see NTTS Speaking Styles. | November 25, 2019 |
New voices added | Two new voices added: Camila (female, Portuguese-Brazil) and Lupe (female, Spanish-US). | October 23, 2019 |
New feature added | Addition of Amazon Polly for Windows plugin to incorporate the full range of Amazon Polly voices into Windows SAPI-compliant applications. | September 26, 2019 |
Major new feature | In addition to the standard text-to-speech (TTS) voices supported by Amazon Polly since its launch, Amazon Polly now provides an improved Neural TTS (NTTS) system that can provide even higher quality voices, thereby providing you with the most natural and human-like text-to-speech voices possible. For more information, see Neural Text-to-Speech. | July 30, 2019 |
New voices added | New voices added: Lucia (female, Spanish), and Bianca (female, Italian). | August 2, 2018 |
New language added | New language added: Mexican Spanish (es-MX). This language uses the female voice of Mia. | August 2, 2018 |
New language added | New language added: Hindi (hi-IN). This voice uses the female voice of Aditi, which is also used for Indian English, making Aditi Amazon Polly's first bilingual voice. | August 2, 2018 |
New feature added | Addition of Speech synthesis of long text passages (up to 100,000 billed characters). | July 17, 2018 |
New SSML feature added | Addition of Maximum Duration for Synthesized Speech. | July 17, 2018 |
New voice added | New voice added: Léa (female, French). | June 5, 2018 |
Region expansion | Expansion of Amazon Polly service to all commercial regions. | June 4, 2018 |
New language added | New language added: Korean (ko-KR). | June 4, 2018 |
Expanded feature | The Amazon Polly WordPress Plugin feature, including addition of Amazon Translate capabilities. | June 4, 2018 |
New voices added | Two new voices added: Aditi (female, Indian English) and Seoyeon (female, Korean). | November 15, 2017 |
New feature | Addition of new Speech Marks feature, as well as an expansion of SSML capabilities.. | April 19, 2017 |
New guide | This is the first release of the Amazon Polly Developer Guide. | November 30, 2016 |
