Standard voices
Amazon Polly has a standard engine that use concatenative synthesis. The standard engine concatenates phonemes of recorded speech, producing very natural-sounding synthesized speech.
Available Standard voices
Amazon Polly currently offers 40 female and 20 male standard voices in 29 language and language variants.
| Language | Language code | Name/ID | Gender | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Arabic |
arb |
Zeina |
Female |
| 2 |
Chinese (Mandarin) |
cmn-CN |
Zhiyu |
Female |
| 3 |
Danish |
da-DK |
Naja Mads |
Female Male |
| 4 |
Dutch |
nl-NL |
Lotte Ruben |
Female Male |
| 5 |
English (Australian) |
en-AU |
Nicole Russell |
Female Male |
| 6 |
English (British) |
en-GB |
Amy Emma Brian |
Female Female Male |
| 7 |
English (Indian) |
en-IN |
Aditi Raveena |
Female Female |
| 8 |
English (US) |
en-US |
Ivy Joanna Kendra Kimberly Salli Joey Kevin |
Female Female Female Female Female Male Male |
| 9 |
English (Welsh) |
en-GB-WLS |
Geraint |
Male |
| 10 |
French |
fr-FR |
Céline/Celine Léa Mathieu |
Female Female Male |
| 11 |
French (Canadian) |
fr-CA |
Chantal |
Female |
| 12 |
German |
de-DE |
Marlene Vicki Hans |
Female Female Male |
| 13 |
Hindi |
hi-IN |
Aditi |
Female |
| 14 |
Icelandic |
is-IS |
Dóra/Dora Karl |
Female Male |
| 15 |
Italian |
it-IT |
Carla Bianca Giorgio |
Female Female Male |
| 16 |
Japanese |
ja-JP |
Mizuki Takumi |
Female Male |
| 17 |
Korean |
ko-KR |
Seoyeon |
Female |
| 18 |
Norwegian |
nb-NO |
Liv |
Female |
| 19 |
Polish |
pl-PL |
Ewa Maja Jacek Jan |
Female Female Male Male |
| 20 |
Portuguese (Brazilian) |
pt-BR |
Camila Vitória/Vitoria Ricardo |
Female Female Male |
| 21 |
Portuguese (European) |
pt-PT |
Inês/Ines Cristiano |
Female Male |
| 22 |
Romanian |
ro-RO |
Carmen |
Female |
| 23 |
Russian |
ru-RU |
Tatyana Maxim |
Female Male |
| 24 |
Spanish (European) |
es-ES |
Conchita Lucia Enrique |
Female Female Male |
| 25 |
Spanish (Mexican) |
es-MX |
Mia |
Female |
| 26 |
Spanish (US) |
es-US |
Lupe Penélope/Penelope Miguel |
Female Female Male |
| 27 |
Swedish |
sv-SE |
Astrid |
Female |
| 28 |
Turkish |
tr-TR |
Filiz |
Male |
| 29 |
Welsh |
cy-GB |
Gwyneth |
Female |
Feature and Region compatibility
Amazon Polly standard voices are available in all 22 Amazon Polly Regions:
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US East (N. Virginia): us-east-1
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US West (Oregon): us-west-2
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Africa (Cape Town): af-south-1
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Asia Pacific (Tokyo): ap-northeast-1
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Asia Pacific (Seoul): ap-northeast-2
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Asia Pacific (Osaka): ap-northeast-3
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Asia Pacific (Mumbai): ap-south-1
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China (Ningxia) Region
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Asia Pacific (Singapore): ap-southeast-1
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Asia Pacific (Sydney): ap-southeast-2
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Canada (Central): ca-central-1
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Europe (Frankfurt): eu-central-1
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Europe (Ireland): eu-west-1
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Europe (London): eu-west-2
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Europe (Paris): eu-west-3
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AWS GovCloud (US-West): us-gov-west-1
Endpoints and protocols for these Regions are identical to those used for Neural voices. For more information, see Amazon Polly endpoints and quotas.
The Amazon Polly standard engine supports the following features (TBD):
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Real-time and asynchronous speech synthesis operations.
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All speech marks.
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Many (but not all) SSML tags are supported by Amazon Polly. For more information about NTTS-supported SSML tags, see Supported SSML tags.
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100ms latency.
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You can choose from various sampling rates to optimize the bandwidth and audio quality for your application. The default sampling rates for standard voices are 22 kHz. Amazon Polly supports MP3, OGG (Vorbis), and raw PCM audio stream formats.
Note
Standard voices cost is specified on the Amazon Polly pricing information page
Using Standard voices on the console
You can access Amazon Polly standard voices through the Amazon Polly console or AWS CLI.
To use a standard voice on the console
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Open the Amazon Polly console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/polly/
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From the Amazon Polly console, choose the Standard engine.
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Choose the desired voice from the voice dropdown menu.
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Generate TTS audio with text of your choice.
Note
Standard voices can also be used with the
SynthesizeSpeech and
StartSpeechSynthesisTask API
operations. For the API operations, customers can specify the engine and the
name of the voices in the API request. You can find more quick-start code samples.
