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Programmable Voice | Apr. 09, 2024

New Text To Speech Voices available for <Say>

Twilio has updated its Text-To-Speech offering adding support for a total of 19 new voices within Standard and Premium tiers.

Twilio has updated its Text-To-Speech offering adding support for new Amazon Polly and Google Voices. This release includes the following new voices and languages:

 

Language (Locale)IDTypeGenderVoice name
English (Ireland)en-IEPremiumFemalePolly.Niamh-Neural
English (US)en-USPremiumMalePolly.Gregory-Neural
English (US)en-USPremiumFemalePolly.Danielle-Neural
Danish (Denmark)da-DKPremiumFemalePolly.Sofie-Neural
Dutch (Belgium)nl-BEPremiumFemalePolly.Lisa-Neural
French (Belgium)fr-BEPremiumFemalePolly.Isabelle-Neural
Arabic (Gulf)ar-AEPremiumMalePolly.Zayd-Neural
Bengali (India)bn-INStandardFemaleGoogle.bn-IN-Standard-C
Bengali (India)bn-INStandardMaleGoogle.bn-IN-Standard-D
Bengali (India)bn-INPremiumFemaleGoogle.bn-IN-Wavenet-C
Bengali (India)bn-INPremiumMaleGoogle.bn-IN-Wavenet-D
Gujarati (India)gu-INStandardFemaleGoogle.gu-IN-Standard-C
Gujarati (India)gu-INStandardMaleGoogle.gu-IN-Standard-D
Gujarati (India)gu-INPremiumFemaleGoogle.gu-IN-Wavenet-C
Gujarati (India)gu-INPremiumMaleGoogle.gu-IN-Wavenet-D
Kannada (India)kn-INStandardFemaleGoogle.kn-IN-Standard-C
Kannada (India)kn-INStandardMaleGoogle.kn-IN-Standard-D
Kannada (India)kn-INPremiumFemaleGoogle.kn-IN-Wavenet-C
Kannada (India)kn-INPremiumMaleGoogle.kn-IN-Wavenet-D

 

Try new enhanced voices in your IVR applications by selecting them in the Text-to-Speech section of the Twilio Console, by setting them in your TwiML <Say> attributes or using Studio <Say> Widget.

For more information about the voices and pricing, please visit Twilio Text-to-Speech docs.

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