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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 Amazon Polly voices.

Available Voices

Amazon Polly provides a variety of different voices in multiple languages for synthesizing speech from text. As of 2023, Amazon Polly also offers three long-form en-US voices. Learn more about long-form voices.

Language and language variants Language code Name/ID Gender Neural Voice Standard Voice Long-Form Voice

Arabic

arb

Zeina

Female

No

Yes

No

Arabic (Gulf

ar-AE

Hala*

Zayd*

Female

Male

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

Dutch (Belgian)

nl-BE

Lisa

Female

Yes

No

No

Catalan

ca-ES

Arlet

Female

Yes

No

No

Chinese (Cantonese)

yue-CN

Hiujin

Female

Yes

No

No

Chinese (Mandarin)

cmn-CN

Zhiyu

Female

Yes

Yes

No

Danish

da-DK

Naja

Mads

Sofie

Female

Male

Female

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

Dutch

nl-NL

Laura

Lotte

Ruben

Female

Female

Male

Yes

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

English (Australian)

en-AU

Nicole

Olivia

Russell

Female

Female

Male

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

No

English (British)

en-GB

Amy**

Emma

Brian

Arthur

Female

Female

Male

Male

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

English (Indian)

en-IN

Aditi*

Raveena

Kajal*

Female

Female

Female

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

English (Ireland)

en-IE

Niamh

Female

Yes

No

No

English (New Zealand)

en-NZ

Aria

Female

Yes

No

No

English (South African)

en-ZA

Ayanda

Female

Yes

No

No

English (US)

en-US

Danielle***

Gregory***

Ivy

Joanna**

Kendra

Kimberly

Salli

Joey

Justin

Kevin

Matthew**

Ruth***

Stephen

Female

Male

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

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

No

No

No

No

Yes

No

English (Welsh)

en-GB-WLS

Geraint

Male

No

Yes

No

Finnish

fi-FI

Suvi

Female

Yes

No

No

French

fr-FR

Céline/Celine

Léa

Mathieu

Rémi

Female

Female

Male

Male

No

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

French (Belgian)

fr-BE

Isabelle

Female

Yes

No

No

French (Canadian)

fr-CA

Chantal

Gabrielle

Liam

Female

Female

Male

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

German

de-DE

Marlene

Vicki

Hans

Daniel

Female

Female

Male

Male

No

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

German (Austrian)

de-AT

Hannah

Female

Yes

No

No

Hindi

hi-IN

Aditi*

Kajal*

Female

Female

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

Icelandic

is-IS

Dóra/Dora

Karl

Female

Male

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

Italian

it-IT

Carla

Bianca

Giorgio

Adriano

Female

Female

Male

Male

No

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

Japanese

ja-JP

Mizuki

Takumi

Kazuha

Tomoko

Female

Male

Female

Female

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

No

Korean

ko-KR

Seoyeon

Female

Yes

Yes

No

Norwegian

nb-NO

Liv

Ida

Female

Female

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

Polish

pl-PL

Ewa

Maja

Jacek

Jan

Ola

Female

Female

Male

Male

Female

No

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

No

Portuguese (Brazilian)

pt-BR

Camila

Vitória/Vitoria

Ricardo

Thiago

Female

Female

Male

Male

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

Portuguese (European)

pt-PT

Inês/Ines

Cristiano

Female

Male

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

Romanian

ro-RO

Carmen

Female

No

Yes

No

Russian

ru-RU

Tatyana

Maxim

Female

Male

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

Spanish (European)

es-ES

Conchita

Lucia

Enrique

Sergio

Female

Female

Male

Male

No

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

Spanish (Mexican)

es-MX

Mia

Andrés

Female

Male

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

Spanish (US)

es-US

Lupe**

Penélope/Penelope

Miguel

Pedro

Female

Female

Male

Male

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

Swedish

sv-SE

Astrid

Elin

Female

Female

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

Turkish

tr-TR

Filiz

Burcu

Female

Female

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

Welsh

cy-GB

Gwyneth

Female

No

Yes

No

* This voice is bilingual. 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.

***These voices (Danielle, Gregory, and Ruth) are only available as Long-Form and NTTS voices, but not as Standard voices.

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