Getting a List of Voices

This example uses the DescribeVoices operation to get the list of voices in the us-west-2 region.

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Create the file pollyDescribeVoices.go. Import the packages used in the example.

import (
    "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
    "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/session"
    "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/polly"

    "fmt"
    "os"
)

Initialize a session that the SDK will use to load credentials from the shared credentials file ~/.aws/credentials, load your configuration from the shared configuration file ~/.aws/config, and create an Amazon Polly client.

sess := session.Must(session.NewSessionWithOptions(session.Options{
    SharedConfigState: session.SharedConfigEnable,
}))

svc := polly.New(sess)

Create the input for and call DescribeVoices.

input := &polly.DescribeVoicesInput{LanguageCode: aws.String("en-US")}
resp, err := svc.DescribeVoices(input)

Display the name and gender of the voices.

for _, v := range resp.Voices {
    fmt.Println("Name:   " + *v.Name)
    fmt.Println("Gender: " + *v.Gender)
    fmt.Println("")
}

See the complete example on GitHub.