Amazon Web Services on October 22, 2026 released a generally available upgrade to the Amazon Polly Generative text-to-speech engine, adding 14 new voices across nine locales and bringing generative voices to Hindi and Finnish for the first time. In an AWS Machine Learning Blog post, the company described the updated engine as producing more expressive, more accurate speech output with low latency, now available in production.
The release arrives as a drop-in upgrade for existing generative voices: voice names and API calls are unchanged, so applications already using them keep working without modification. AWS describes Amazon Polly as a fully managed service that converts text into natural-sounding speech, used for contact centers, agentic applications built on large language models, media and entertainment, e-learning, accessibility, and other workloads that require reliable voice output at scale.
Speech Quality and Engine Design
AWS said the upgraded…
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