Request Syntax URI Request Parameters Request Body Response Syntax Response Elements Errors See Also

DescribeVoices

Returns the list of voices that are available for use when requesting speech synthesis. Each voice speaks a specified language, is either male or female, and is identified by an ID, which is the ASCII version of the voice name.

When synthesizing speech ( SynthesizeSpeech ), you provide the voice ID for the voice you want from the list of voices returned by DescribeVoices.

For example, you want your news reader application to read news in a specific language, but giving a user the option to choose the voice. Using the DescribeVoices operation you can provide the user with a list of available voices to select from.

You can optionally specify a language code to filter the available voices. For example, if you specify en-US, the operation returns a list of all available US English voices.

This operation requires permissions to perform the polly:DescribeVoices action.

Request Syntax


GET /v1/voices?Engine=Engine&IncludeAdditionalLanguageCodes=IncludeAdditionalLanguageCodes&LanguageCode=LanguageCode&NextToken=NextToken HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

Engine

Specifies the engine (standard or neural) used by Amazon Polly when processing input text for speech synthesis.

Valid Values: standard | neural

IncludeAdditionalLanguageCodes

Boolean value indicating whether to return any bilingual voices that use the specified language as an additional language. For instance, if you request all languages that use US English (es-US), and there is an Italian voice that speaks both Italian (it-IT) and US English, that voice will be included if you specify yes but not if you specify no.

LanguageCode

The language identification tag (ISO 639 code for the language name-ISO 3166 country code) for filtering the list of voices returned. If you don't specify this optional parameter, all available voices are returned.

NextToken

An opaque pagination token returned from the previous DescribeVoices operation. If present, this indicates where to continue the listing.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 4096.

Request Body

The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax


HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
   "NextToken": "string",
   "Voices": [ 
      { 
         "AdditionalLanguageCodes": [ "string" ],
         "Gender": "string",
         "Id": "string",
         "LanguageCode": "string",
         "LanguageName": "string",
         "Name": "string",
         "SupportedEngines": [ "string" ]
      }
   ]
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

NextToken

The pagination token to use in the next request to continue the listing of voices. NextToken is returned only if the response is truncated.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 4096.

Voices

A list of voices with their properties.

Type: Array of Voice objects

Errors

InvalidNextTokenException

The NextToken is invalid. Verify that it's spelled correctly, and then try again.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceFailureException

An unknown condition has caused a service failure.

HTTP Status Code: 500