Available voices

Amazon Polly provides a variety of lifelike voices in multiple languages for synthesizing speech from text. The following table shows all the voices that Amazon Polly offers.

	Language and language variants	Language code	Name/ID	Gender	Generative voice	Long Form voice	Neural voice	Standard voice
1	Arabic	arb	Zeina	Female	No	No	No	Yes
2	Arabic (Gulf)	ar-AE	Hala* Zayd*	Female Male	No No	No No	Yes Yes	No No
3	Dutch (Belgian)	nl-BE	Lisa	Female	No	No	Yes	No
4	Catalan	ca-ES	Arlet	Female	No	No	Yes	No
5	Chinese (Cantonese)	yue-CN	Hiujin	Female	No	No	Yes	No
6	Chinese (Mandarin)	cmn-CN	Zhiyu	Female	No	No	Yes	Yes
7	Danish	da-DK	Naja Mads Sofie	Female Male Female	No No No	No No No	No No Yes	Yes Yes No
8	Dutch	nl-NL	Laura Lotte Ruben	Female Female Male	No No No	No No No	Yes No No	No Yes Yes
9	English (Australian)	en-AU	Nicole Olivia Russell	Female Female Male	No No No	No No No	No Yes No	Yes No Yes
10	English (British)	en-GB	Amy** Emma Brian Arthur	Female Female Male Male	Yes No No No	No No No No	Yes Yes Yes Yes	Yes Yes Yes No
11	English (Indian)	en-IN	Aditi* Raveena Kajal*	Female Female Female	No No No	No No No	No No Yes	Yes Yes No
12	English (Ireland)	en-IE	Niamh	Female	No	No	Yes	No
13	English (New Zealand)	en-NZ	Aria	Female	No	No	Yes	No
14	English (South African)	en-ZA	Ayanda	Female	No	No	Yes	No
15	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	No No No No No No No No No No Yes Yes No	Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No Yes No	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
16	English (Welsh)	en-GB-WLS	Geraint	Male	No	No	No	Yes
17	Finnish	fi-FI	Suvi	Female	No	No	Yes	No
18	French	fr-FR	Céline/Celine Léa Mathieu Rémi	Female Female Male Male	No No No No	No No No No	No Yes No Yes	Yes Yes Yes No
19	French (Belgian)	fr-BE	Isabelle	Female	No	No	Yes	No
20	French (Canadian)	fr-CA	Chantal Gabrielle Liam	Female Female Male	No No No	No No No	No Yes Yes	Yes No No
21	German	de-DE	Marlene Vicki Hans Daniel	Female Female Male Male	No No No No	No No No No	No Yes No Yes	Yes Yes Yes No
22	German (Austrian)	de-AT	Hannah	Female	No	No	Yes	No
23	Hindi	hi-IN	Aditi* Kajal*	Female Female	No No	No No	No Yes	Yes No
24	Icelandic	is-IS	Dóra/Dora Karl	Female Male	No No	No No	No No	Yes Yes
25	Italian	it-IT	Carla Bianca Giorgio Adriano	Female Female Male Male	No No No No	No No No No	No Yes No Yes	Yes Yes Yes No
26	Japanese	ja-JP	Mizuki Takumi Kazuha Tomoko	Female Male Female Female	No No No No	No No No No	No Yes Yes Yes	Yes Yes No No
27	Korean	ko-KR	Seoyeon	Female	No	No	Yes	Yes
28	Norwegian	nb-NO	Liv Ida	Female Female	No No	No No	No Yes	Yes No
29	Polish	pl-PL	Ewa Maja Jacek Jan Ola	Female Female Male Male Female	No No No No No	No No No No No	No No No No Yes	Yes Yes Yes Yes No
30	Portuguese (Brazilian)	pt-BR	Camila Vitória/Vitoria Ricardo Thiago	Female Female Male Male	No No No No	No No No No	Yes Yes No Yes	Yes Yes Yes No
31	Portuguese (European)	pt-PT	Inês/Ines Cristiano	Female Male	No No	No No	Yes No	Yes Yes
32	Romanian	ro-RO	Carmen	Female	No	No	No	Yes
33	Russian	ru-RU	Tatyana Maxim	Female Male	No No	No No	No No	Yes Yes
34	Spanish (European)	es-ES	Conchita Lucia Enrique Sergio	Female Female Male Male	No No No No	No No No No	No Yes No Yes	Yes Yes Yes No
35	Spanish (Mexican)	es-MX	Mia Andrés	Female Male	No No	No No	Yes Yes	Yes No
36	Spanish (US)	es-US	Lupe** Penélope/Penelope Miguel Pedro	Female Female Male Male	No No No No	No No No No	Yes No No Yes	Yes Yes Yes No
37	Swedish	sv-SE	Astrid Elin	Female Female	No No	No No	No Yes	Yes No
38	Turkish	tr-TR	Filiz Burcu	Female Female	No No	No No	No Yes	Yes No
39	Welsh	cy-GB	Gwyneth	Female	No	No	No	Yes

* 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 Newscaster voices.

Each Amazon Polly voice engine has unique features. Learn more about features and Region availability for the voice engines offered by Amazon Polly:

Brand voices

In addition to the available voices listed in the previous table, you can use Amazon Polly to build a custom voice for your brand persona. With a brand voice, you can offer unique and exclusive voices to your customers. To learn more about Amazon Polly brand voices, see Brand Voice.

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