Frequently Asked Questions

SSML is Speech Synthesis Markup Language that allows you to control the pitch, contour, pitch range, rate, duration and volume of your synthesized speech. Normally this is added by adding SSML language around your text. The following is an example of creating an emphasis on the press 1 element.

xml:lang=“en-US”> name=“Joanna” gender=“Female” age=“25”> For English, press one.

However, our highlight technology will add the SSML for you so you do not need to write any code, simply highlight the word and choose an emphasis like speech rate “slow” or “loud” etc. and we will add the SSML in the background.

Amazon Polly has a Neural TTS (NTTS) system that can produce even higher quality voices than its standard voices. The NTTS system produces the most natural and human-like text-to-speech voices possible. Standard TTS voices use concatenative synthesis.

Neural voices are available in US English (es-US), and British English (es-GB), Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR), and US Spanish (es-US).

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

LanguageName/IDGenderStandard VoiceNeural Voice
Arabic (arb)ZeinaFemaleYesNo
Chinese, Mandarin (cmn-CN)ZhiyuFemaleYesNo
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 (child)

Female

Female

Female

Female

Male

Male (child)

Male

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

English (Welsh) (en-GB-WLS)GeraintMaleYesNo
French (fr-FR)Céline/Celine

Léa

Mathieu

Female

Female

Male

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

French (Canadian) (fr-CA)ChantalFemaleYesNo
German (de-DE)Marlene

Vicki

Hans

Female

Female

Male

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

Hindi (hi-IN)Aditi*FemaleYesNo
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)SeoyeonFemaleYesNo
Norwegian (nb-NO)LivFemaleYesNo
Polish (pl-PL)Ewa

Maja

Jacek

Jan

Female

Female

Male

Male

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

Portuguese (Brazilian) (pt-BR)Camila

Vitória/Vitoria

Ricardo

Female

Female

Male

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Portuguese (European) (pt-PT)Inês/Ines

Cristiano

Female

Male

Yes

Yes

No

No

Romanian (ro-RO)CarmenFemaleYesNo
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)MiaFemaleYesNo
US Spanish (es-US)Lupe**

Penélope/Penelope

Miguel

Female

Female

Male

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Swedish (sv-SE)AstridFemaleYesNo
Turkish (tr-TR)FilizFemaleYesNo
Welsh (cy-GB)GwynethFemaleYesNo

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

** These voices can be used with both the Conversational and Newscaster speaking styles when used with the Neural format.

Your audio is stored in the repository as long as your account is active and in good standing. this allows you quick access to past audio for you to easily make updates or changes to existing audio without having to recreate new audio from scratch!

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