Amazon Polly launches a new voice in Singaporean English

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Jasmine - new Singaporean English Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) female voice for Amazon Polly.

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and to build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products.

Jasmine is our first voice for the Singaporean variant of English. Even though Singaporean English is reported to be close to British English, there are some unique pronunciation patterns that we captured while training this voice, such as pronunciation of telephone numbers or postal codes, to make sure that Jasmine sounds like a local speaker. With this launch, we continue building a variety of voice and language options for Amazon Polly customers.

Jasmine and all the other NTTS voices are available in AWS regions supporting Neural TTS. For more details, please read the Amazon Polly documentation and visit our pricing page.