> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.cognigy.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# TTS and STT Vendors

> Explore the cloud-based and on-premises TTS and STT vendors supported by Cognigy Voice Gateway, including AWS, Microsoft, Google, Deepgram, and ElevenLabs. View all supported languages and voices per provider.

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## Supported TTS and STT Providers

The table shows the cloud-based and on-premises TTS (Text-to-Speech) and STT (Speech-to-Text) providers supported by Cognigy Voice Gateway.

<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th rowspan="2">Provider</th>
      <th colspan="2">Cloud-Based</th>
      <th colspan="2">On-Premises</th>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>TTS</th>
      <th>STT</th>
      <th>TTS</th>
      <th>STT</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>

  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>AWS</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>-</td>
      <td>-</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>Deepgram</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>+</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>Deepgram Flux</td>
      <td>-</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>-</td>
      <td>-</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>ElevenLabs</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>-</td>
      <td>-</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>Google</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>-</td>
      <td>-</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>Microsoft</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>+</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>Nuance</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>+</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>Speechmatics<sup><a href="#footnote1">1</a></sup></td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>-</td>
      <td>-</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>Custom</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>+</td>
      <td>+</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

## Supported Languages and Voices

The following sections list the languages and voices available for each provider in Voice Gateway.

### AWS

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="TTS">
    **Amazon Polly** — 29 languages, 61 voices:

    * Arabic
    * Australian English
    * Brazilian Portuguese
    * British English
    * Canadian French
    * Castilian Spanish
    * Chinese Mandarin
    * Danish
    * Dutch
    * French
    * German
    * Hindi
    * Icelandic
    * Indian English
    * Italian
    * Japanese
    * Korean
    * Mexican Spanish
    * Norwegian
    * Polish
    * Portuguese
    * Romanian
    * Russian
    * Swedish
    * Turkish
    * US English
    * US Spanish
    * Welsh
    * Welsh English
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="STT">
    **Amazon Transcribe** — 102 languages:

    * Abkhaz
    * Afrikaans
    * Arabic, Gulf
    * Arabic, Modern Standard
    * Armenian
    * Asturian
    * Azerbaijani
    * Bashkir
    * Basque
    * Belarusian
    * Bengali
    * Bosnian
    * Bulgarian
    * Catalan
    * Central Kurdish, Iran
    * Central Kurdish, Iraq
    * Chinese, Simplified
    * Chinese, Traditional
    * Croatian
    * Czech
    * Danish
    * Dutch
    * English, Australian
    * English, British
    * English, Indian
    * English, Irish
    * English, New Zealand
    * English, Scottish
    * English, South African
    * English, US
    * English, Welsh
    * Estonian
    * Farsi
    * Finnish
    * French
    * French, Canadian
    * Galician
    * Georgian
    * German
    * German, Swiss
    * Greek
    * Gujarati
    * Hausa
    * Hebrew
    * Hindi, Indian
    * Hungarian
    * Icelandic
    * Indonesian
    * Italian
    * Japanese
    * Kabyle
    * Kannada
    * Kazakh
    * Kinyarwanda
    * Korean
    * Kyrgyz
    * Latvian
    * Lithuanian
    * Luganda
    * Macedonian
    * Malay
    * Malayalam
    * Maltese
    * Marathi
    * Meadow Mari
    * Mongolian
    * Norwegian Bokmål
    * Odia/Oriya
    * Pashto
    * Polish
    * Portuguese
    * Portuguese, Brazilian
    * Punjabi
    * Romanian
    * Russian
    * Serbian
    * Sinhala
    * Slovak
    * Slovenian
    * Somali
    * Spanish
    * Spanish, US
    * Sundanese
    * Swahili, Burundi
    * Swahili, Kenya
    * Swahili, Rwanda
    * Swahili, Tanzania
    * Swahili, Uganda
    * Swedish
    * Tagalog/Filipino
    * Tamil
    * Tatar
    * Telugu
    * Thai
    * Turkish
    * Ukrainian
    * Uyghur
    * Uzbek
    * Vietnamese
    * Welsh
    * Wolof
    * Zulu
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

### Deepgram

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="TTS">
    **Deepgram Aura-2** — multilingual, 7 languages (15 locales), 102 voices:

    * Dutch (Netherlands)
    * English (5 locales)
    * French (France)
    * German (Germany)
    * Italian (Italy)
    * Japanese (Japan)
    * Spanish (5 locales)
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="STT">
    103 languages (nova-3 model), 177 locales:

    * Afrikaans
    * Albanian
    * Amharic
    * Arabic
    * Armenian
    * Assamese
    * Azerbaijani
    * Bashkir
    * Basque
    * Belarusian
    * Bengali
    * Bosnian
    * Breton
    * Bulgarian
    * Burmese
    * Catalan
    * Chinese
    * Croatian
    * Czech
    * Danish
    * Dutch
    * English
    * Estonian
    * Faroese
    * Finnish
    * French
    * Galician
    * Georgian
    * German
    * Greek
    * Gujarati
    * Haitian
    * Hausa
    * Hawaiian
    * Hebrew
    * Hindi
    * Hungarian
    * Icelandic
    * Indonesian
    * Italian
    * Japanese
    * Javanese
    * Kannada
    * Kazakh
    * Khmer
    * Korean
    * Lao
    * Latin
    * Latvian
    * Lingala
    * Lithuanian
    * Luxembourgish
    * Macedonian
    * Malagasy
    * Malay
    * Malayalam
    * Maltese
    * Maori
    * Marathi
    * Mongolian
    * Multilingual
    * Nepali
    * Norwegian
    * Norwegian Nynorsk
    * Occitan
    * Pashto
    * Persian
    * Polish
    * Portuguese
    * Punjabi
    * Romanian
    * Russian
    * Russian (Latin script)
    * Sanskrit
    * Serbian
    * Shona
    * Sindhi
    * Sinhala
    * Slovak
    * Slovene
    * Slovenian
    * Somali
    * Spanish
    * Sundanese
    * Swahili
    * Swedish
    * Tagalog
    * Tajik
    * Tamasheq
    * Tamil
    * Tatar
    * Telugu
    * Thai
    * Tibetan
    * Turkish
    * Turkmen
    * Ukrainian
    * Urdu
    * Uzbek
    * Vietnamese
    * Welsh
    * Yiddish
    * Yoruba
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

### Deepgram Flux

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="STT">
    10 languages, configured via a custom URI:

    * Dutch
    * English (10 locales)
    * French
    * German
    * Hindi
    * Italian
    * Japanese
    * Portuguese
    * Russian
    * Spanish
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

### ElevenLabs

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="TTS">
    Multilingual. Language support depends on the selected model:

    | Model                                                  | Languages     |
    | ------------------------------------------------------ | ------------- |
    | Multilingual v2, Multilingual v1, Turbo v2, Turbo v2.5 | 30+ languages |
    | English v1, English v2                                 | English only  |

    Built-in voices (available across all supported languages): Adam, Antoni, Arnold, Bella, Callum, Charlie, Charlotte, Clyde, Daniel, Dave, Domi, Dorothy, Elli, Emily, Ethan, Fin, Freya, Gigi, Giovanni, Glinda, Grace, Harry, James, Jeremy, Jessie, Josh, Liam, and more. Custom and cloned voices are also supported via the ElevenLabs API.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="STT">
    Multilingual via `stt_model_id`. Refer to the [ElevenLabs documentation](https://elevenlabs.io/docs) for supported STT languages.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

### Google

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="TTS">
    63 languages, 2000+ voices (Standard, WaveNet, Neural2, Studio, and Chirp tiers):

    * Afrikaans (South Africa)
    * Amharic (Ethiopia)
    * Arabic (Pseudo-Accents)
    * Basque (Spain)
    * Bengali (India)
    * Bulgarian (Bulgaria)
    * Catalan (Spain)
    * Chinese (Cantonese, Hong Kong, Mandarin, Simplified, Mandarin, Traditional)
    * Croatian (Croatia)
    * Czech (Czech Republic)
    * Danish (Denmark)
    * Dutch (Belgium, Netherlands)
    * English (Australia, India, United Kingdom, United States)
    * Estonian (Estonia)
    * Filipino (Philippines)
    * Finnish (Finland)
    * French (Canada, France)
    * Galician (Spain)
    * German (Germany)
    * Greek (Greece)
    * Gujarati (India)
    * Hebrew (Israel)
    * Hindi (India)
    * Hungarian (Hungary)
    * Icelandic (Iceland)
    * Indonesian (Indonesia)
    * Italian (Italy)
    * Japanese (Japan)
    * Kannada (India)
    * Korean (South Korea)
    * Latvian (Latvia)
    * Lithuanian (Lithuania)
    * Malay (Malaysia)
    * Malayalam (India)
    * Marathi (India)
    * Norwegian Bokmål (Norway)
    * Polish (Poland)
    * Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal)
    * Punjabi (India)
    * Romanian (Romania)
    * Russian (Russia)
    * Serbian (Serbia)
    * Slovak (Slovakia)
    * Slovenian (Slovenia)
    * Spanish (Spain, United States)
    * Swahili (Kenya)
    * Swedish (Sweden)
    * Tamil (India)
    * Telugu (India)
    * Thai (Thailand)
    * Turkish (Turkey)
    * Ukrainian (Ukraine)
    * Urdu (India)
    * Vietnamese (Vietnam)
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="STT">
    171 languages including:

    * Afrikaans (South Africa)
    * Albanian (Albania)
    * Amharic (Ethiopia)
    * Arabic (19 locales)
    * Armenian (Armenia)
    * Aromanian (Bulgaria)
    * Assamese (India)
    * Asturian (Spain)
    * Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan)
    * Basque (Spain)
    * Belarusian (Belarus)
    * Bengali (Bangladesh, India)
    * Bosnian (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
    * Bulgarian (Bulgaria)
    * Burmese (Myanmar)
    * Catalan (Spain)
    * Cebuano (Philippines)
    * Central Kurdish (Iraq)
    * Chinese (Simplified, China)
    * Chinese, Cantonese (Traditional Hong Kong)
    * Chinese, Mandarin (Traditional, Taiwan)
    * Croatian (Croatia)
    * Czech (Czech Republic)
    * Danish (Denmark)
    * Dutch (Belgium, Netherlands)
    * English (11 locales)
    * Estonian (Estonia)
    * Filipino (Philippines)
    * Finnish (Finland)
    * French (Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland)
    * Fulah (Senegal)
    * Galician (Spain)
    * Ganda (Uganda)
    * Georgian (Georgia)
    * German (Austria, Germany, Switzerland)
    * Greek (Greece)
    * Gujarati (India)
    * Hausa (Nigeria)
    * Hebrew (Israel)
    * Hindi (India)
    * Hungarian (Hungary)
    * Icelandic (Iceland)
    * Igbo (Nigeria)
    * Indonesian (Indonesia)
    * Irish (Ireland)
    * Italian (Italy, Switzerland)
    * Japanese (Japan)
    * Javanese (Indonesia)
    * Kabuverdianu (Cape Verde)
    * Kamba (Kenya)
    * Kannada (India)
    * Kazakh (Kazakhstan)
    * Khmer (Cambodia)
    * Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)
    * Korean (South Korea)
    * Kyrgyz (Cyrillic)
    * Lao (Laos)
    * Latvian (Latvia)
    * Lingala (Congo-Kinshasa)
    * Lithuanian (Lithuania)
    * Luo (Kenya)
    * Luxembourgish (Luxembourg)
    * Macedonian (North Macedonia)
    * Malay (Malaysia)
    * Malayalam (India)
    * Maltese (Malta)
    * Maori (New Zealand)
    * Marathi (India)
    * Mongolian (Mongolia)
    * Nepali (Nepal)
    * Norwegian Bokmål (Norway)
    * Nyanja (Malawi)
    * Occitan (France)
    * Oriya (India)
    * Oromo (Ethiopia)
    * Pashto
    * Persian (Iran)
    * Polish (Poland)
    * Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal)
    * Punjabi (Gurmukhi India)
    * Romanian (Romania)
    * Russian (Russia)
    * Sepedi (South Africa)
    * Serbian (Serbia)
    * Shona (Zimbabwe)
    * Sindhi (India)
    * Sinhala (Sri Lanka)
    * Slovak (Slovakia)
    * Slovenian (Slovenia)
    * Somali
    * Southern Sotho (South Africa)
    * Spanish (20 locales)
    * Sundanese (Indonesia)
    * Swahili (Kenya)
    * Swati (Latin, South Africa)
    * Swedish (Sweden)
    * Tajik (Tajikistan)
    * Tamil (India)
    * Telugu (India)
    * Thai (Thailand)
    * Tsonga (South Africa)
    * Tswana (Latin, South Africa)
    * Turkish (Turkey)
    * Ukrainian (Ukraine)
    * Umbundu (Angola)
    * Urdu (Pakistan)
    * Uzbek (Uzbekistan)
    * Venda (South Africa)
    * Vietnamese (Vietnam)
    * Welsh (United Kingdom)
    * Wolof (Senegal)
    * Xhosa (South Africa)
    * Yoruba (Nigeria)
    * Zulu (South Africa)
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

### Microsoft Azure

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="TTS">
    154 locales, 635 neural voices including:

    * Afrikaans (South Africa)
    * Albanian (Albania)
    * Amharic (Ethiopia)
    * Arabic (16 locales)
    * Armenian (Armenia)
    * Assamese (India)
    * Azerbaijani (Latin, Azerbaijan)
    * Bangla (Bangladesh)
    * Basque
    * Bengali (India)
    * Bosnian (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
    * Bulgarian (Bulgaria)
    * Burmese (Myanmar)
    * Catalan
    * Chinese (11 locales)
    * Croatian (Croatia)
    * Czech (Czechia)
    * Danish (Denmark)
    * Dutch (Belgium, Netherlands)
    * English (14 locales)
    * Estonian (Estonia)
    * Filipino (Philippines)
    * Finnish (Finland)
    * French (Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland)
    * Galician
    * Georgian (Georgia)
    * German (Austria, Germany, Switzerland)
    * Greek (Greece)
    * Gujarati (India)
    * Hebrew (Israel)
    * Hindi (India)
    * Hungarian (Hungary)
    * Icelandic (Iceland)
    * Indonesian (Indonesia)
    * Inuktitut (Latin, Canada, Syllabics, Canada)
    * Irish (Ireland)
    * Italian (Italy)
    * Japanese (Japan)
    * Javanese (Latin, Indonesia)
    * Kannada (India)
    * Kazakh (Kazakhstan)
    * Khmer (Cambodia)
    * Korean (Korea)
    * Lao (Laos)
    * Latvian (Latvia)
    * Lithuanian (Lithuania)
    * Macedonian (North Macedonia)
    * Malay (Malaysia)
    * Malayalam (India)
    * Maltese (Malta)
    * Marathi (India)
    * Mongolian (Mongolia)
    * Nepali (Nepal)
    * Norwegian Bokmål (Norway)
    * Odia (India)
    * Pashto (Afghanistan)
    * Persian (Iran)
    * Polish (Poland)
    * Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal)
    * Punjabi (India)
    * Romanian (Romania)
    * Russian (Russia)
    * Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia, Latin, Serbia)
    * Sinhala (Sri Lanka)
    * Slovak (Slovakia)
    * Slovenian (Slovenia)
    * Somali (Somalia)
    * Spanish (22 locales)
    * Sundanese (Indonesia)
    * Swahili (Kenya, Tanzania)
    * Swedish (Sweden)
    * Tamil (India, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka)
    * Telugu (India)
    * Thai (Thailand)
    * Turkish (Türkiye)
    * Ukrainian (Ukraine)
    * Urdu (India, Pakistan)
    * Uzbek (Latin, Uzbekistan)
    * Vietnamese (Vietnam)
    * Welsh (United Kingdom)
    * Zulu (South Africa)
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="STT">
    154 languages. Refer to the [Microsoft Azure STT documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/language-support?tabs=stt) for the full list.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

### Nuance

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="TTS">
    57 language entries, 142 named voices (standard and enhanced models):

    * Arabic (Worldwide)
    * Basque (Spain)
    * Bengali (India)
    * Bhojpuri (India)
    * Bulgarian (Bulgaria)
    * Cantonese (Hong Kong)
    * Catalan (Spain)
    * Croatian (Croatia)
    * Czech (Czech Republic)
    * Danish (Denmark)
    * Dutch (Belgium)
    * English (7 locales)
    * Finnish (Finland)
    * French (Belgium, Canada, France)
    * Galician (Spain)
    * German (Germany)
    * Greek (Greece)
    * Hebrew (Israel)
    * Hindi (India)
    * Hungarian (Hungary)
    * Indonesian (Indonesia)
    * Italian (Italy)
    * Japanese (Japan)
    * Kannada (India)
    * Korean (South Korea)
    * Malay (Malaysia)
    * Mandarin (China, Taiwan)
    * Marathi (India)
    * Norwegian Bokmål (Norway)
    * Polish (Poland)
    * Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal)
    * Romanian (Romania)
    * Russian (Russia)
    * Slovak (Slovakia)
    * Spanish (5 locales)
    * Swedish (Sweden)
    * Tamil (India)
    * Telugu (India)
    * Thai (Thailand)
    * Turkish (Turkey)
    * Ukrainian (Ukraine)
    * Valencian (Spain)
    * Vietnamese (Vietnam)
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="STT">
    41 languages:

    * Arabic (Worldwide)
    * Cantonese (Hong Kong)
    * Catalan (Spain)
    * Croatian (Croatia)
    * Czech (Czech Republic)
    * Danish (Denmark)
    * Dutch (Netherlands)
    * English (Australia, India, United Kingdom, United States)
    * Finnish (Finland)
    * French (Canada, France)
    * German (Germany)
    * Greek (Greece)
    * Hebrew (Israel)
    * Hindi (India)
    * Hungarian (Hungary)
    * Indonesian (Indonesia)
    * Italian (Italy)
    * Japanese (Japan)
    * Korean (South Korea)
    * Malay (Malaysia)
    * Mandarin (China, Taiwan)
    * Norwegian (Norway)
    * Polish (Poland)
    * Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal)
    * Romanian (Romania)
    * Russian (Russia)
    * Shanghainese (China)
    * Slovak (Slovakia)
    * Spanish (Latin America, Spain)
    * Swedish (Sweden)
    * Thai (Thailand)
    * Turkish (Turkey)
    * Ukrainian (Ukraine)
    * Vietnamese (Vietnam)
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

### Speechmatics

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="STT">
    Multilingual. Available in 3 regions:

    * **EU (EU2 — On-Demand)**
    * **EU (EU1 — Enterprise)**
    * **US (US1 — Enterprise)**

    Refer to the [Speechmatics documentation](https://docs.speechmatics.com) for the full list of supported languages.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

### Custom

Supported languages and voices depend on the custom TTS or STT vendor you configure. Refer to your vendor's documentation for the available languages and voices.

## More Information

* [Speech Services](/voice-gateway/webapp/speech-services)

***

<span style={{ fontSize: "0.8rem" }}>
  <sup id="footnote1">1</sup> Access to the Speechmatics speech provider in Voice Gateway is behind a feature flag and requires additional configuration. For more information, refer to [Speech Services: Speechmatics](/voice-gateway/webapp/speech-services#speechmatics).
</span>
