# Standard voices
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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
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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<br />Mads | Female<br />Male | 
| 4 | **Dutch** | nl-NL | Lotte<br />Ruben | Female<br />Male | 
| 5 | **English (Australian)** | en-AU | Nicole<br />Russell | Female<br />Male | 
| 6 | **English (British)** | en-GB | Amy<br />Emma<br />Brian | Female<br />Female<br />Male | 
| 7 | **English (Indian)** | en-IN | Aditi<br />Raveena | Female<br />Female | 
| 8 | **English (US)** | en-US | Ivy<br />Joanna<br />Kendra<br />Kimberly<br />Salli<br />Joey<br />Kevin | Female<br />Female<br />Female<br />Female<br />Female<br />Male<br />Male | 
| 9 | **English (Welsh)** | en-GB-WLS | Geraint | Male | 
| 10 | **French** | fr-FR | Céline/Celine<br />Léa<br />Mathieu | Female<br />Female<br />Male | 
| 11 | **French (Canadian)** | fr-CA | Chantal | Female | 
| 12 | **German** | de-DE | Marlene<br />Vicki<br />Hans | Female<br />Female<br />Male | 
| 13 | **Hindi** | hi-IN | Aditi | Female | 
| 14 | **Icelandic** | is-IS | Dóra/Dora<br />Karl | Female<br />Male | 
| 15 | **Italian** | it-IT | Carla<br />Bianca<br />Giorgio | Female<br />Female<br />Male | 
| 16 | **Japanese** | ja-JP | Mizuki<br />Takumi | Female<br />Male | 
| 17 | **Korean** | ko-KR | Seoyeon | Female | 
| 18 | **Norwegian** | nb-NO | Liv | Female | 
| 19 | **Polish** | pl-PL | Ewa<br />Maja<br />Jacek<br />Jan | Female<br />Female<br />Male<br />Male | 
| 20 | **Portuguese (Brazilian)** | pt-BR | Camila<br />Vitória/Vitoria<br />Ricardo | Female<br />Female<br />Male | 
| 21 | **Portuguese (European)** | pt-PT | Inês/Ines<br />Cristiano | Female<br />Male | 
| 22 | **Romanian** | ro-RO | Carmen | Female | 
| 23 | **Russian** | ru-RU | Tatyana<br />Maxim | Female<br />Male | 
| 24 | **Spanish (Spain)** | es-ES | Conchita<br />Lucia<br />Enrique | Female<br />Female<br />Male | 
| 25 | **Spanish (Mexican)** | es-MX | Mia | Female | 
| 26 | **Spanish (US)** | es-US | Lupe<br />Penélope/Penelope<br />Miguel | Female<br />Female<br />Male | 
| 27 | **Swedish** | sv-SE | Astrid | Female | 
| 28 | **Turkish** | tr-TR | Filiz | Male | 
| 29 | **Welsh** | cy-GB | Gwyneth | Female | 

## Feature and region compatibility
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Amazon Polly standard voices are available in the following Amazon Polly regions:
+ US East (N. Virginia): us-east-1
+ US East (Ohio): us-east-2
+ US West (N. California): us-west-1
+ US West (Oregon): us-west-2
+ Africa (Cape Town): af-south-1
+ Asia Pacific (Hong Kong): ap-east-1
+ Asia Pacific (Tokyo): ap-northeast-1
+ Asia Pacific (Seoul): ap-northeast-2
+ Asia Pacific (Osaka): ap-northeast-3
+ Asia Pacific (Mumbai): ap-south-1
+ Asia Pacific (Singapore): ap-southeast-1
+ Asia Pacific (Sydney): ap-southeast-2
+ Asia Pacific (Malaysia): ap-southeast-5
+ China (Ningxia): cn-northwest-1;
+ Canada (Central): ca-central-1
+ Europe (Frankfurt): eu-central-1
+ Europe (Ireland): eu-west-1
+ Europe (London): eu-west-2
+ Europe (Paris): eu-west-3
+ Europe (Spain): eu-south-2
+ Europe (Stockholm): eu-north-1
+ Middle East (Bahrain): me-south-1
+ South America (São Paulo): sa-east-1
+ Amazon 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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/pol.html).

**The Amazon Polly standard engine supports the following features (TBD):**
+ Real-time and asynchronous speech synthesis operations.
+ All [speech marks](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/speechmarks.html).
+ Many (but not all) SSML tags are supported by Amazon Polly. For more information about NTTS-supported SSML tags, see [Supported SSML tags](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/supportedtags.html). 
+ 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](https://www.amazonaws.cn/polly/pricing/).