Amazon Polly Voices API

The Voices API from Amazon Polly — 1 operation(s) for voices.

Operations 1

GET /v1/voices Amazon Polly Describe Voices #

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OpenAPI Specification

amazon-polly-voices-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  version: 2016-06-10
  x-release: v4
  title: Amazon Polly Voices API
  description: 'Amazon Polly is a web service that makes it easy to synthesize speech from text.


    The Amazon Polly service provides API operations for synthesizing high-quality speech from plain text and Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), along with managing pronunciations lexicons that enable you to get the best results for your application domain.'
  x-logo:
    url: https://api.apis.guru/v2/cache/logo/https_twitter.com_awscloud_profile_image.png
    backgroundColor: '#FFFFFF'
  termsOfService: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
  contact:
    name: Mike Ralphson
    email: mike.ralphson@gmail.com
    url: https://github.com/mermade/aws2openapi
    x-twitter: PermittedSoc
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0 License
    url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/
  x-providerName: amazonaws.com
  x-serviceName: polly
  x-origin:
  - contentType: application/json
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/aws-sdk-js/master/apis/polly-2016-06-10.normal.json
    converter:
      url: https://github.com/mermade/aws2openapi
      version: 1.0.0
    x-apisguru-driver: external
  x-apiClientRegistration:
    url: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/registration/index.html?nc2=h_ct
  x-apisguru-categories:
  - cloud
  x-preferred: true
servers:
- url: http://polly.{region}.amazonaws.com
  variables:
    region:
      description: The AWS region
      enum:
      - us-east-1
      - us-east-2
      - us-west-1
      - us-west-2
      - us-gov-west-1
      - us-gov-east-1
      - ca-central-1
      - eu-north-1
      - eu-west-1
      - eu-west-2
      - eu-west-3
      - eu-central-1
      - eu-south-1
      - af-south-1
      - ap-northeast-1
      - ap-northeast-2
      - ap-northeast-3
      - ap-southeast-1
      - ap-southeast-2
      - ap-east-1
      - ap-south-1
      - sa-east-1
      - me-south-1
      default: us-east-1
  description: The Amazon Polly multi-region endpoint
- url: https://polly.{region}.amazonaws.com
  variables:
    region:
      description: The AWS region
      enum:
      - us-east-1
      - us-east-2
      - us-west-1
      - us-west-2
      - us-gov-west-1
      - us-gov-east-1
      - ca-central-1
      - eu-north-1
      - eu-west-1
      - eu-west-2
      - eu-west-3
      - eu-central-1
      - eu-south-1
      - af-south-1
      - ap-northeast-1
      - ap-northeast-2
      - ap-northeast-3
      - ap-southeast-1
      - ap-southeast-2
      - ap-east-1
      - ap-south-1
      - sa-east-1
      - me-south-1
      default: us-east-1
  description: The Amazon Polly multi-region endpoint
- url: http://polly.{region}.amazonaws.com.cn
  variables:
    region:
      description: The AWS region
      enum:
      - cn-north-1
      - cn-northwest-1
      default: cn-north-1
  description: The Amazon Polly endpoint for China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia)
- url: https://polly.{region}.amazonaws.com.cn
  variables:
    region:
      description: The AWS region
      enum:
      - cn-north-1
      - cn-northwest-1
      default: cn-north-1
  description: The Amazon Polly endpoint for China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia)
security:
- hmac: []
tags:
- name: Voices
paths:
  /v1/voices:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/X-Amz-Content-Sha256'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/X-Amz-Date'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/X-Amz-Algorithm'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/X-Amz-Credential'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/X-Amz-Security-Token'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/X-Amz-Signature'
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/X-Amz-SignedHeaders'
    get:
      operationId: DescribeVoices
      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 ( SynthesizeSpeech ), you provide the voice ID for the voice you want from the list of voices returned by DescribeVoices.


        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 DescribeVoices 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.'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DescribeVoicesOutput'
        '480':
          description: InvalidNextTokenException
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidNextTokenException'
        '481':
          description: ServiceFailureException
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ServiceFailureException'
      parameters:
      - name: Engine
        in: query
        required: false
        description: 'Specifies the engine (<code>standard</code> or <code>neural</code>) used by Amazon Polly when processing input text for speech synthesis. '
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - standard
          - neural
      - name: LanguageCode
        in: query
        required: false
        description: ' 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. '
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - 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
      - name: IncludeAdditionalLanguageCodes
        in: query
        required: false
        description: 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 <code>yes</code> but not if you specify <code>no</code>.
        schema:
          type: boolean
      - name: NextToken
        in: query
        required: false
        description: An opaque pagination token returned from the previous <code>DescribeVoices</code> operation. If present, this indicates where to continue the listing.
        schema:
          type: string
          minLength: 0
          maxLength: 4096
      summary: Amazon Polly Describe Voices
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
      tags:
      - Voices
components:
  parameters:
    X-Amz-Content-Sha256:
      name: X-Amz-Content-Sha256
      in: header
      schema:
        type: string
      required: false
    X-Amz-Algorithm:
      name: X-Amz-Algorithm
      in: header
      schema:
        type: string
      required: false
    X-Amz-Credential:
      name: X-Amz-Credential
      in: header
      schema:
        type: string
      required: false
    X-Amz-SignedHeaders:
      name: X-Amz-SignedHeaders
      in: header
      schema:
        type: string
      required: false
    X-Amz-Signature:
      name: X-Amz-Signature
      in: header
      schema:
        type: string
      required: false
    X-Amz-Date:
      name: X-Amz-Date
      in: header
      schema:
        type: string
      required: false
    X-Amz-Security-Token:
      name: X-Amz-Security-Token
      in: header
      schema:
        type: string
      required: false
  schemas:
    Voice:
      type: object
      properties:
        Gender:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Gender'
          - description: Gender of the voice.
        Id:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/VoiceId'
          - description: Amazon Polly assigned voice ID. This is the ID that you specify when calling the <code>SynthesizeSpeech</code> operation.
        LanguageCode:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/LanguageCode'
          - description: Language code of the voice.
        LanguageName:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/LanguageName'
          - description: Human readable name of the language in English.
        Name:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/VoiceName'
          - description: Name of the voice (for example, Salli, Kendra, etc.). This provides a human readable voice name that you might display in your application.
        AdditionalLanguageCodes:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/LanguageCodeList'
          - description: <p>Additional codes for languages available for the specified voice in addition to its default language. </p> <p>For example, the default language for Aditi is Indian English (en-IN) because it was first used for that language. Since Aditi is bilingual and fluent in both Indian English and Hindi, this parameter would show the code <code>hi-IN</code>.</p>
        SupportedEngines:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/EngineList'
          - description: Specifies which engines (<code>standard</code> or <code>neural</code>) that are supported by a given voice.
      description: Description of the voice.
    VoiceName:
      type: string
    EngineList:
      type: array
      items:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/Engine'
    LanguageCode:
      type: string
      enum:
      - 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
    Gender:
      type: string
      enum:
      - Female
      - Male
    LanguageCodeList:
      type: array
      items:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/LanguageCode'
    NextToken:
      type: string
      minLength: 0
      maxLength: 4096
    DescribeVoicesOutput:
      type: object
      example:
        Voices:
        - Gender: Female
          Id: Emma
          LanguageCode: en-GB
          LanguageName: British English
          Name: Emma
        - Gender: Male
          Id: Brian
          LanguageCode: en-GB
          LanguageName: British English
          Name: Brian
        - Gender: Female
          Id: Amy
          LanguageCode: en-GB
          LanguageName: British English
          Name: Amy
      properties:
        Voices:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/VoiceList'
          - description: A list of voices with their properties.
        NextToken:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/NextToken'
          - description: The pagination token to use in the next request to continue the listing of voices. <code>NextToken</code> is returned only if the response is truncated.
    VoiceList:
      type: array
      items:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/Voice'
    LanguageName:
      type: string
    ServiceFailureException: {}
    VoiceId:
      type: string
      enum:
      - 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
    Engine:
      type: string
      enum:
      - standard
      - neural
    InvalidNextTokenException: {}
  securitySchemes:
    hmac:
      type: apiKey
      name: Authorization
      in: header
      description: Amazon Signature authorization v4
      x-amazon-apigateway-authtype: awsSigv4
externalDocs:
  description: Amazon Web Services documentation
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/