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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?

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John Rotenstein
John Rotenstein

Reputation: 270274

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.

Upvotes: 3

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