Amazon Polly launches two new US English NTTS voices

[Amazon Polly](/polly/) is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Ruth and Stephen, two new US English neural Text-to-speech (NTTS) voices. Amazon Polly now offers two more voices supporting US English: Ruth is a new neural female voice and Stephen is a new neural male voice. They expand our portfolio for this locale to 6 female voices and 4 male voices. We created Ruth and Stephen as different voice personas, compared to other available US voices, to give our customers a wider range of female and male voice options to choose from. Ruth, Stephen and all the other NTTS voices are available in [AWS regions supporting Neural TTS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/NTTS-main.html#ntts-regions). For more details, please read the [Amazon Polly documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/what-is.html) and visit our [pricing page](/polly/pricing/).