Voices in Amazon Polly

Amazon Polly provides a number of different voices for you to use. To hear example voices, see the Amazon Polly product overview. To hear a specific voice speak a sample that you provide, you can use the Amazon Polly console. For instructions, see Listening to the Voices.

Available Voices

Amazon Polly provides a variety of different voices in multiple languages for synthesizing speech from text.

Language and language variants	Language code	Name/ID	Gender	Neural Voice	Standard Voice
Arabic	arb	Zeina	Female	No	Yes
Arabic (Gulf)	ar-AE	Hala	Female	Yes	No
Catalan	ca-ES	Arlet	Female	Yes	No
Chinese (Cantonese)	yue-CN	Hiujin	Female	Yes	No
Chinese (Mandarin)	cmn-CN	Zhiyu	Female	Yes	Yes
Danish	da-DK	Naja Mads	Female Male	No No	Yes Yes
Dutch	nl-NL	Laura Lotte Ruben	Female Female Male	Yes No No	No Yes Yes
English (Australian)	en-AU	Nicole Olivia Russell	Female Female Male	No Yes No	Yes No Yes
English (British)	en-GB	Amy** Emma Brian Arthur	Female Female Male Male	Yes Yes Yes Yes	Yes Yes Yes No
English (Indian)	en-IN	Aditi* Raveena Kajal*	Female Female Female	No No Yes	Yes Yes No
English (New Zealand)	en-NZ	Aria	Female	Yes	No
English (South African)	en-ZA	Ayanda	Female	Yes	No
English (US)	en-US	Ivy Joanna Kendra Kimberly Salli Joey Justin Kevin Matthew Ruth Stephen	Female (child) Female Female Female Female Male Male (child) Male (child) Male Female Male	Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes	Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No
English (Welsh)	en-GB-WLS	Geraint	Male	No	Yes
Finnish	fi-FI	Suvi	Female	Yes	No
French	fr-FR	Céline/Celine Léa Mathieu Rémi	Female Female Male Male	No Yes No Yes	Yes Yes Yes No
French (Canadian)	fr-CA	Chantal Gabrielle Liam	Female Female Male	No Yes Yes	Yes No No
German	de-DE	Marlene Vicki Hans Daniel	Female Female Male Male	No Yes No Yes	Yes Yes Yes No
German (Austrian)	de-AT	Hannah	Female	Yes	No
Hindi	hi-IN	Aditi* Kajal*	Female Female	No Yes	Yes No
Icelandic	is-IS	Dóra/Dora Karl	Female Male	No No	Yes Yes
Italian	it-IT	Carla Bianca Giorgio Adriano	Female Female Male Male	No Yes No Yes	Yes Yes Yes No
Japanese	ja-JP	Mizuki Takumi Kazuha Tomoko	Female Male Female Female	No Yes Yes Yes	Yes Yes No No
Korean	ko-KR	Seoyeon	Female	Yes	Yes
Norwegian	nb-NO	Liv Ida	Female Female	No Yes	Yes No
Polish	pl-PL	Ewa Maja Jacek Jan Ola	Female Female Male Male Female	No No No No Yes	Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Portuguese (Brazilian)	pt-BR	Camila Vitória/Vitoria Ricardo Thiago	Female Female Male Male	Yes Yes No Yes	Yes Yes Yes No
Portuguese (European)	pt-PT	Inês/Ines Cristiano	Female Male	Yes No	Yes Yes
Romanian	ro-RO	Carmen	Female	No	Yes
Russian	ru-RU	Tatyana Maxim	Female Male	No No	Yes Yes
Spanish (European)	es-ES	Conchita Lucia Enrique Sergio	Female Female Male Male	No Yes No Yes	Yes Yes Yes No
Spanish (Mexican)	es-MX	Mia Andrés	Female Male	Yes Yes	Yes No
Spanish (US)	es-US	Lupe** Penélope/Penelope Miguel Pedro	Female Female Male Male	Yes No No Yes	Yes Yes Yes No
Swedish	sv-SE	Astrid Elin	Female Female	No Yes	Yes No
Turkish	tr-TR	Filiz	Female	No	Yes
Welsh	cy-GB	Gwyneth	Female	No	Yes

* This voice is bilingual and can speak both English and Hindi. For more information, see Bilingual Voices.

** These voices can be used with Newscaster speaking styles when used with the Neural format. For more information, see NTTS Newscaster Speaking Style.

In addition to the above voices, Amazon Polly can build you a custom Brand Voice that reflects your brand persona, providing you the opportunity to offer unique and exclusive NTTS voices to your customers. To learn more about Amazon Polly Brand Voices, please see Brand Voice.

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Python Examples

Bilingual Voices