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Amazon updates its Polly generative AI engine with 14 new voices

Amazon upgrades its Polly generative AI engine with 14 new voices across 9 locales, adding first-time support for Hindi and Finnish speech.

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Summary

Amazon released an upgrade to the Amazon Polly generative AI engine, delivering natural and expressive speech output. The drop-in update adds 14 new voices across 9 locales, including general availability for Hindi and Finnish. Existing applications require no code changes to use the updated voices via standard API calls.

What changed

  • Added 14 new generative voices across 9 locales.
  • Introduced general availability of generative voices in Hindi and Finnish for the first time.
  • Delivered drop-in compatibility where existing API calls and voice names continue to work without code changes.
  • Made the upgrade generally available in production.

Availability

Available now

“The upgrade is now generally available in production.”

Founder takeaway

If you use Amazon Polly for text-to-speech, test your existing workflows as the drop-in upgrade is live in production without requiring code changes.

Source

AWSAmazon Polly delivers a major upgrade to its Generative engine | Amazon Web Services

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