Amazon Polly upgrades its Generative engine with improved speech and 14 new voices
Amazon Polly delivers a major upgrade to its Generative engine
- Who
- Amazon Polly
- What
- upgraded its Generative engine, adding 14 voices across 9 locales and expanding availability to Hindi, Finnish, and AWS GovCloud (US-West)
- Quote
The next-generation Generative engine and the new voices are now generally available.
What happened
AWS has released a generally available upgrade to Amazon Polly’s Generative engine, offering more natural, expressive, and accurate speech with low latency. It adds 14 voices across 9 locales, including Hindi and Finnish, bringing the catalog to 57 generative voices across 11 languages and 25 locales. Existing generative voices upgrade in place with unchanged voice names, API calls, and pricing; availability expands to AWS GovCloud (US-West), bringing coverage to 11 AWS Regions.
Why it matters
Unchanged API calls, voice names, and pricing make this upgrade relevant to existing speech workflows, with broader language coverage available without code changes.
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AWS has made an upgraded Amazon Polly Generative engine generally available, adding 14 voices across 9 locales and expanding availability to AWS GovCloud (US-West). The additions include Hindi and Finnish and bring Polly’s generative catalog to 57 voices across 11 languages and 25 locales, available in 11 AWS Regions. AWS says the upgraded engine produces more natural, expressive and accurate speech with low latency. Existing generative voices receive the upgrade in place, with voice names, API calls and pricing unchanged, so customers can continue using their existing integrations.
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