Polly Voice Tag Attribute Details

Voice Tag Attributes

<gender>

This attribute is not supported.

<age>

This attribute is not supported.

<name>

Language	Name/ID	Gender	Standard Voice	Neural Voice
Arabic (arb)	Zeina	Female	Yes	No
Chinese, Mandarin (cmn-CN)	Zhiyu	Female	Yes	No
Danish (da-DK)	Naja	Female	Yes	No
	Mads	Male	Yes	No
Dutch (nl-NL)	Lotte	Female	Yes	No
	Ruben	Male	Yes	No
English (Australian) (en-AU)	Nicole	Female	Yes	No
	Russell	Male	Yes	No
English (British) (en-GB)	Amy	Female	Yes	Yes
	Emma	Female	Yes	Yes
	Brian	Male	Yes	Yes
English (Indian) (en-IN)	Aditi*	Female	Yes	No
	Raveena	Female	Yes	No
English (US) (en-US)	Ivy	Female (child)	Yes	Yes
	Joanna##	Female	Yes	Yes
	Kendra	Female	Yes	Yes
	Kimberly	Female	Yes	Yes
	Salli	Female	Yes	Yes
	Joey	Male	Yes	Yes
	Justin	Male (child)	Yes	Yes
	Matthew##	Male	Yes	Yes
English (Welsh) (en-GB-WLS)	Geraint	Male	Yes	No
French (fr-FR)	Céline/Celine	Female	Yes	No
	Léa	Female	Yes	No
	Mathieu	Male	Yes	No
French (Canadian) (fr-CA)	Chantal	Female	Yes	No
German (de-DE)	Marlene	Female	Yes	No
	Vicki	Female	Yes	No
	Hans	Male	Yes	No
Hindi (hi-IN)	Aditi*	Female	Yes	No
Icelandic (is-IS)	Dóra/Dora	Female	Yes	No
	Karl	Male	Yes	No
Italian (it-IT)	Carla	Female	Yes	No
	Bianca	Female	Yes	No
	Giorgio	Male	Yes	No
Japanese (ja-JP)	Mizuki	Female	Yes	No
	Takumi	Male	Yes	No
Korean (ko-KR)	Seoyeon	Female	Yes	No
Norwegian (nb-NO)	Liv	Female	Yes	No
Polish (pl-PL)	Ewa	Female	Yes	No
	Maja	Female	Yes	No
	Jacek	Male	Yes	No
	Jan	Male	Yes	No
Portuguese (Brazilian) (pt-BR)	Camila	Female	Yes	Yes
	Vitória/Vitoria	Female	Yes	No
	Ricardo	Male	Yes	No
Portuguese (European) (pt-PT)	Inês/Ines	Female	Yes	No
	Cristiano	Male	Yes	No
Romanian (ro-RO)	Carmen	Female	Yes	No
Russian (ru-RU)	Tatyana	Female	Yes	No
	Maxim	Male	Yes	No
Spanish (European) (es-ES)	Conchita	Female	Yes	No
	Lucia	Female	Yes	No
	Enrique	Male	Yes	No
Spanish (Mexican) (es-MX)	Mia	Female	Yes	No
Spanish (US) (es-US)	Lupe	Female	Yes	Yes
	Penélope/Penelope	Female	Yes	No
	Miguel	Male	Yes	No
Swedish (sv-SE)	Astrid	Female	Yes	No
Turkish (tr-TR)	Filiz	Female	Yes	No
Welsh (cy-GB)	Gwyneth	Female	Yes	No

Notes:

* This voice is bilingual and can speak both English and Hindi. For more information, see Bilingual Voices https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/bilingual-voices.html.

## These voices can be used with both the Conversational and Newscaster speaking styles when used with the Neural format. For more information, see NTTS Speaking Styles https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/ntts-speakingstyles.html.

Voice selection notes for Polly If you specify the Amazon Polly TTS, and neither a <speak> nor <voice> tag are specified, Plum Voice uses the en_US, standard, female voice Joanna by default.

<speak>

The <speak> tag should be used to specify the desired language through the attribute xml:lang=”lg-CN”, where lg-CN is the language-country pair specified in the Language column from that table of supported languages here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/voicelist.html.

Please note that each voice has an associated language. Selecting a language that is not associated with the voice will result in unpredictable behavior; however, in many cases, you will hear the language the text was written in accented by that voice’s associated language.

<voice>

The <voice> tag should be used to specify the desired voice through the attribute name=”name”, where name is the voice specified in the Name/ID column for the table of supported voices here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/voicelist.html.

If another voice is desired, it should specified using the <speak> and <voice> tags as follows within the prompt block:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<vxml version="2.0">
 <form>
  <block>
   <prompt>
    <speak xml:lang="es-MX">
    <voice name="Mia" variant="1">
     Hello, thank you for calling Plum Voice.
    </voice>
    </speak>
   </prompt>
  </block>
 </form>
</vxml>

To sequentially use multiple languages and voices within a <prompt> block, use multiple <speak> and <voice> blocks. For example:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<vxml version="2.0">
 <form>
  <block>
   <prompt>
    <speak xml:lang="en-US">
    <voice name="Joanna" variant="2">
     Press one to continue in English.
    </voice>
    </speak>
    <speak xml:lang="es-US">
    <voice name="Lupe" variant="2">
     Presione dos para continuar en español.
    </voice>
    </speak> 
    <speak xml:lang="fr-FR">
    <voice name="Celine" variant="standard">
     Appuyez sur trois pour continuer en français.
    </voice>
    </speak>
   </prompt>
  </block>
 </form>
</vxml>

<xml:lang>

This option is specified in the <speak> tag.

See the list of available languages in the <name> section.

SSML Tags

For more details on these SSML tags as they relate to Amazon Polly, please visit: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/supportedtags.html.

Note that Plum Voice does not currently support all the tags listed on Amazon's website. We may add support for additional tags in the future.

Child Tag	Amazon Polly
<break>
<emphasis>	x
<enumerate>
<mark>
<paragraph>
<phoneme>	x
<prosody>	x
<say-as>	x
<sentence>
<speak>
<sub>	x
<value>

<emphasis>

The <emphasis> tag lets you change the rate and volume of words and phrases.

For more information, consult: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/supportedtags.html#emphasis-tag

<phoneme>

This tag lets you use phonetic pronunciation.

For more information, consult: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/supportedtags.html#phoneme-tag

<prosody>

The Amazon Polly engine provides granular control over volume, rate, and pitch. For detailed information about how to use this tag, consult https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/supportedtags.html#prosody-tag.

<say-as>

Polly enables you to control the way in which certain special words and phrases get spoken.

A full list is available here:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/supportedtags.html#say-as-tag

<sub>

This tag allows you to substitute a term or phrase for the selected text.

For more information, consult: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/supportedtags.html#sub-tag