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Amazon Polly, What Voices are for What Language


I have been searching the internet for a list as to what Polly voices go with what language. Does anyone know which ones go together?


Solution

  • You can use the DescribeVoices API call to obtain information about each voice.

    $ aws polly describe-voices --region us-east-1
    {
        "Voices": [
            {
                "Gender": "Female", 
                "Name": "Joanna", 
                "LanguageName": "US English", 
                "Id": "Joanna", 
                "LanguageCode": "en-US"
            }, 
            {
                "Gender": "Female", 
                "Name": "Mizuki", 
                "LanguageName": "Japanese", 
                "Id": "Mizuki", 
                "LanguageCode": "ja-JP"
            }, 
            {
                "Gender": "Female", 
                "Name": "Filiz", 
                "LanguageName": "Turkish", 
                "Id": "Filiz", 
                "LanguageCode": "tr-TR"
            }, 
            etc.
    

    The LanguageCode is in ISO 639 format, which includes the language and country.