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AWS Polly gains neural voices in U.S. Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese

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Months after Amazon launched in general availability Neural Text-To-Speech (NTTS) and newscaster style in Amazon Polly, a cloud service that converts text into speech, the Seattle company today debuted two new NTTS voices in U.S. Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese: "Lupe" and "Camila." Like the U.S. English NTTS voice before them, they mimic things like stress and intonation in speech courtesy by identifying tonal patterns. Neural versions of Camila and Lupe are available in Amazon Web Services' (AWS) U.S. East (N. Standard variants are also available across 18 AWS regions, bringing Polly's total number of voices to 61 across 29 languages and the total number of voices available in both standard and neural versions to 13 across four languages. According to Amazon text-to-speech program manager Marta Smolarek, the new U.S. Spanish voice -- Lupe, which is the third U.S. text-to-speech voice in Polly -- not only speaks Spanish but also handles English and provides a fully bilingual Spanish-English experience.