Describe Voices

polly_describe_voices

R Documentation

Returns the list of voices that are available for use when requesting speech synthesis¶

Description¶

Returns the list of voices that are available for use when requesting speech synthesis. Each voice speaks a specified language, is either male or female, and is identified by an ID, which is the ASCII version of the voice name.

When synthesizing speech ( synthesize_speech ), you provide the voice ID for the voice you want from the list of voices returned by describe_voices.

For example, you want your news reader application to read news in a specific language, but giving a user the option to choose the voice. Using the describe_voices operation you can provide the user with a list of available voices to select from.

You can optionally specify a language code to filter the available voices. For example, if you specify en-US, the operation returns a list of all available US English voices.

This operation requires permissions to perform the polly:DescribeVoices action.

Usage¶

polly_describe_voices(Engine, LanguageCode,
  IncludeAdditionalLanguageCodes, NextToken)

Arguments¶

Engine: Specifies the engine (standard, neural, long-form or generative) used by Amazon Polly when processing input text for speech synthesis.
LanguageCode: The language identification tag (ISO 639 code for the language name-ISO 3166 country code) for filtering the list of voices returned. If you don't specify this optional parameter, all available voices are returned.
IncludeAdditionalLanguageCodes: Boolean value indicating whether to return any bilingual voices that use the specified language as an additional language. For instance, if you request all languages that use US English (es-US), and there is an Italian voice that speaks both Italian (it-IT) and US English, that voice will be included if you specify yes but not if you specify no.
NextToken: An opaque pagination token returned from the previous describe_voices operation. If present, this indicates where to continue the listing.

Value¶

A list with the following syntax:

list(
  Voices = list(
    list(
      Gender = "Female"|"Male",
      Id = "Aditi"|"Amy"|"Astrid"|"Bianca"|"Brian"|"Camila"|"Carla"|"Carmen"|"Celine"|"Chantal"|"Conchita"|"Cristiano"|"Dora"|"Emma"|"Enrique"|"Ewa"|"Filiz"|"Gabrielle"|"Geraint"|"Giorgio"|"Gwyneth"|"Hans"|"Ines"|"Ivy"|"Jacek"|"Jan"|"Joanna"|"Joey"|"Justin"|"Karl"|"Kendra"|"Kevin"|"Kimberly"|"Lea"|"Liv"|"Lotte"|"Lucia"|"Lupe"|"Mads"|"Maja"|"Marlene"|"Mathieu"|"Matthew"|"Maxim"|"Mia"|"Miguel"|"Mizuki"|"Naja"|"Nicole"|"Olivia"|"Penelope"|"Raveena"|"Ricardo"|"Ruben"|"Russell"|"Salli"|"Seoyeon"|"Takumi"|"Tatyana"|"Vicki"|"Vitoria"|"Zeina"|"Zhiyu"|"Aria"|"Ayanda"|"Arlet"|"Hannah"|"Arthur"|"Daniel"|"Liam"|"Pedro"|"Kajal"|"Hiujin"|"Laura"|"Elin"|"Ida"|"Suvi"|"Ola"|"Hala"|"Andres"|"Sergio"|"Remi"|"Adriano"|"Thiago"|"Ruth"|"Stephen"|"Kazuha"|"Tomoko"|"Niamh"|"Sofie"|"Lisa"|"Isabelle"|"Zayd"|"Danielle"|"Gregory"|"Burcu"|"Jitka"|"Sabrina",
      LanguageCode = "arb"|"cmn-CN"|"cy-GB"|"da-DK"|"de-DE"|"en-AU"|"en-GB"|"en-GB-WLS"|"en-IN"|"en-US"|"es-ES"|"es-MX"|"es-US"|"fr-CA"|"fr-FR"|"is-IS"|"it-IT"|"ja-JP"|"hi-IN"|"ko-KR"|"nb-NO"|"nl-NL"|"pl-PL"|"pt-BR"|"pt-PT"|"ro-RO"|"ru-RU"|"sv-SE"|"tr-TR"|"en-NZ"|"en-ZA"|"ca-ES"|"de-AT"|"yue-CN"|"ar-AE"|"fi-FI"|"en-IE"|"nl-BE"|"fr-BE"|"cs-CZ"|"de-CH",
      LanguageName = "string",
      Name = "string",
      AdditionalLanguageCodes = list(
        "arb"|"cmn-CN"|"cy-GB"|"da-DK"|"de-DE"|"en-AU"|"en-GB"|"en-GB-WLS"|"en-IN"|"en-US"|"es-ES"|"es-MX"|"es-US"|"fr-CA"|"fr-FR"|"is-IS"|"it-IT"|"ja-JP"|"hi-IN"|"ko-KR"|"nb-NO"|"nl-NL"|"pl-PL"|"pt-BR"|"pt-PT"|"ro-RO"|"ru-RU"|"sv-SE"|"tr-TR"|"en-NZ"|"en-ZA"|"ca-ES"|"de-AT"|"yue-CN"|"ar-AE"|"fi-FI"|"en-IE"|"nl-BE"|"fr-BE"|"cs-CZ"|"de-CH"
      ),
      SupportedEngines = list(
        "standard"|"neural"|"long-form"|"generative"
      )
    )
  ),
  NextToken = "string"
)

Request syntax¶

svc$describe_voices(
  Engine = "standard"|"neural"|"long-form"|"generative",
  LanguageCode = "arb"|"cmn-CN"|"cy-GB"|"da-DK"|"de-DE"|"en-AU"|"en-GB"|"en-GB-WLS"|"en-IN"|"en-US"|"es-ES"|"es-MX"|"es-US"|"fr-CA"|"fr-FR"|"is-IS"|"it-IT"|"ja-JP"|"hi-IN"|"ko-KR"|"nb-NO"|"nl-NL"|"pl-PL"|"pt-BR"|"pt-PT"|"ro-RO"|"ru-RU"|"sv-SE"|"tr-TR"|"en-NZ"|"en-ZA"|"ca-ES"|"de-AT"|"yue-CN"|"ar-AE"|"fi-FI"|"en-IE"|"nl-BE"|"fr-BE"|"cs-CZ"|"de-CH",
  IncludeAdditionalLanguageCodes = TRUE|FALSE,
  NextToken = "string"
)

Examples¶

## Not run: 
# Returns the list of voices that are available for use when requesting
# speech synthesis. Displayed languages are those within the specified
# language code. If no language code is specified, voices for all
# available languages are displayed.
svc$describe_voices(
  LanguageCode = "en-GB"
)

## End(Not run)