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Voices in Amazon Polly

Available Voices

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

Language	Name/ID	Gender	Standard Voice	Neural Voice
Arabic (arb)	Zeina	Female	Yes	No
Chinese, Mandarin (cmn-CN)	Zhiyu	Female	Yes	No
Danish (da-DK)	Naja Mads	Female Male	Yes Yes	No No
Dutch (nl-NL)	Lotte Ruben	Female Male	Yes Yes	No No
English (Australian) (en-AU)	Nicole Russell	Female Male	Yes Yes	No No
English (British) (en-GB)	Amy Emma Brian	Female Female Male	Yes Yes Yes	Yes Yes Yes
English (Indian) (en-IN)	Aditi* Raveena	Female Female	Yes Yes	No No
English (US) (en-US)	Ivy Joanna** Kendra Kimberly Salli Joey Justin Matthew**	Female Female Female Female Female Male Male Male	Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes	Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
English (Welsh) (en-GB-WLS)	Geraint	Male	Yes	No
French (fr-FR)	Céline/Celine Léa Mathieu	Female Female Male	Yes Yes Yes	No No No
French (Canadian) (fr-CA)	Chantal	Female	Yes	No
German (de-DE)	Marlene Vicki Hans	Female Female Male	Yes Yes Yes	No No No
Hindi (hi-IN)	Aditi*	Female	Yes	No
Icelandic (is-IS)	Dóra/Dora Karl	Female Male	Yes Yes	No No
Italian (it-IT)	Carla Bianca Giorgio	Female Female Male	Yes Yes Yes	No No No
Japanese (ja-JP)	Mizuki Takumi	Female Male	Yes Yes	No No
Korean (ko-KR)	Seoyeon	Female	Yes	No
Norwegian (nb-NO)	Liv	Female	Yes	No
Polish (pl-PL)	Ewa Maja Jacek Jan	Female Female Male Male	Yes Yes Yes Yes	No No No No
Portuguese (Brazilian) (pt-BR)	Vitória/Vitoria Ricardo	Female Male	Yes Yes	No No
Portuguese (European) (pt-PT)	Inês/Ines Cristiano	Female Male	Yes Yes	No No
Romanian (ro-RO)	Carmen	Female	Yes	No
Russian (ru-RU)	Tatyana Maxim	Female Male	Yes Yes	No No
Spanish (European) (es-ES)	Conchita Lucia Enrique	Female Female Male	Yes Yes Yes	No No No
Spanish (Mexican) (es-MX)	Mia	Female	Yes	No
Spanish (US) (es-US)	Penélope/Penelope Miguel	Female Male	Yes Yes	No No
Swedish (sv-SE)	Astrid	Female	Yes	No
Turkish (tr-TR)	Filiz	Female	Yes	No
Welsh (cy-GB)	Gwyneth	Female	Yes	No

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

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