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Amazon Polly upgrades Generative engine with new voices and languages

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Amazon Polly has released a significant upgrade to its Generative engine, enhancing speech output to be more natural, expressive, and accurate. This update introduces 14 new voices across 9 locales, including the first-ever Generative voices in Hindi and Finnish. The improvements are designed to be a seamless, drop-in replacement for existing applications, maintaining current API calls and voice names while offering enhanced capabilities for numbers, currency, and addresses. AI

IMPACT Enhances the naturalness and accuracy of text-to-speech for AI-powered applications, potentially improving user experience in contact centers and LLM-based agents.

RANK_REASON This is a product update for an existing AWS service, not a new frontier model release or significant industry shift.

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Amazon Polly upgrades Generative engine with new voices and languages

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. AWS Machine Learning Blog TIER_1 English(EN) · Suyin Wang ·

    Amazon Polly delivers a major upgrade to its Generative engine

    The Amazon Polly Generative engine gets a major upgrade: more expressive, more accurate speech with low latency, plus 14 new voices across 9 locales and general availability of Hindi and Finnish. This drop-in upgrade requires no code changes and is now generally available in prod…

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · ainews_direct ·

    AWS Machine Learning: Amazon Polly delivers a major upgrade to its Generative engine https:// ai-news.ypetit.net/?a=0qaey51v jf6&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=

    AWS Machine Learning: Amazon Polly delivers a major upgrade to its Generative engine https:// ai-news.ypetit.net/?a=0qaey51v jf6&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bot # AI # AWS

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