Amazon Polly delivers a major upgrade to its Generative engine
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Amazon Polly has released a major upgrade to its Generative engine, offering more natural, expressive, and accurate speech output with low latency. This drop-in enhancement introduces 14 new voices across nine locales, including the first-time general availability of generative voices in Hindi and Finnish. The total catalog now includes 57 generative voices across 11 languages and 25 locales, expanding to AWS GovCloud (US-West) for a total of 11 regions. Existing applications can benefit from these improvements without any code changes or API modifications, as voice names and calls remain unchanged. The upgrade maintains competitive pricing, providing better quality at no additional cost compared to previous models. Key features include improved entity pronunciation for numbers and addresses, and context-aware emotional delivery without manual setup. Use cases span contact centers, cascaded voice agents, media localization, e-learning, and accessibility services.
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