Polly Generative engine upgraded with more natural speech, 14 new voices, and 2 new languages

Amazon Polly's Generative engine receives a major upgrade with improved natural-sounding speech, 14 new voices, and support for Hindi and Finnish languages.

• New model delivers more natural, accurate speech with low latency for real-time applications
• 14 new voices added across nine locales including Kenneth, Nate, Russell, Curtis, Kiara, Arjun, Tina, Carlos, Leo, Carolina, Hyunduk, and Suvi
• Hindi and Finnish now generally available on Generative engine for the first time
• Enhanced handling of complex content like numbers, email addresses, and street addresses
• SSML tag support continues for fine-grained speech control
• Expanded availability to 11 AWS regions including AWS GovCloud (US-West)
• Ideal for contact centers, chatbots, LLM-based voice applications, media, e-learning, and accessibility

The upgrade makes Polly Generative voices more suitable for enterprise and public sector applications requiring natural, multilingual speech synthesis.