List available voices

Shows how to list the available voices.

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• Supported voices and languages

Code sample

Go

To learn how to install and use the client library for Text-to-Speech, see Text-to-Speech client libraries. For more information, see the Text-to-Speech Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Text-to-Speech, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

// ListVoices lists the available text to speech voices.
func ListVoices(w io.Writer) error {
	ctx := context.Background()

	client, err := texttospeech.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer client.Close()

	// Performs the list voices request.
	resp, err := client.ListVoices(ctx, &texttospeechpb.ListVoicesRequest{})
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	for _, voice := range resp.Voices {
		// Display the voice's name. Example: tpc-vocoded
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "Name: %v\n", voice.Name)

		// Display the supported language codes for this voice. Example: "en-US"
		for _, languageCode := range voice.LanguageCodes {
			fmt.Fprintf(w, "  Supported language: %v\n", languageCode)
		}

		// Display the SSML Voice Gender.
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "  SSML Voice Gender: %v\n", voice.SsmlGender.String())

		// Display the natural sample rate hertz for this voice. Example: 24000
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "  Natural Sample Rate Hertz: %v\n",
			voice.NaturalSampleRateHertz)
	}

	return nil
}

Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for Text-to-Speech, see Text-to-Speech client libraries. For more information, see the Text-to-Speech Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Text-to-Speech, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

/**
 * Demonstrates using the Text to Speech client to list the client's supported voices.
 *
 * @throws Exception on TextToSpeechClient Errors.
 */
public static List<Voice> listAllSupportedVoices() throws Exception {
  // Instantiates a client
  try (TextToSpeechClient textToSpeechClient = TextToSpeechClient.create()) {
    // Builds the text to speech list voices request
    ListVoicesRequest request = ListVoicesRequest.getDefaultInstance();

    // Performs the list voices request
    ListVoicesResponse response = textToSpeechClient.listVoices(request);
    List<Voice> voices = response.getVoicesList();

    for (Voice voice : voices) {
      // Display the voice's name. Example: tpc-vocoded
      System.out.format("Name: %s\n", voice.getName());

      // Display the supported language codes for this voice. Example: "en-us"
      List<ByteString> languageCodes = voice.getLanguageCodesList().asByteStringList();
      for (ByteString languageCode : languageCodes) {
        System.out.format("Supported Language: %s\n", languageCode.toStringUtf8());
      }

      // Display the SSML Voice Gender
      System.out.format("SSML Voice Gender: %s\n", voice.getSsmlGender());

      // Display the natural sample rate hertz for this voice. Example: 24000
      System.out.format("Natural Sample Rate Hertz: %s\n\n", voice.getNaturalSampleRateHertz());
    }
    return voices;
  }
}

Node.js

To learn how to install and use the client library for Text-to-Speech, see Text-to-Speech client libraries. For more information, see the Text-to-Speech Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Text-to-Speech, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

const textToSpeech = require('@google-cloud/text-to-speech');

const client = new textToSpeech.TextToSpeechClient();

const [result] = await client.listVoices({});
const voices = result.voices;

console.log('Voices:');
voices.forEach(voice => {
  console.log(`Name: ${voice.name}`);
  console.log(`  SSML Voice Gender: ${voice.ssmlGender}`);
  console.log(`  Natural Sample Rate Hertz: ${voice.naturalSampleRateHertz}`);
  console.log('  Supported languages:');
  voice.languageCodes.forEach(languageCode => {
    console.log(`    ${languageCode}`);
  });
});

PHP

To learn how to install and use the client library for Text-to-Speech, see Text-to-Speech client libraries.

To authenticate to Text-to-Speech, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

use Google\Cloud\TextToSpeech\V1\Client\TextToSpeechClient;
use Google\Cloud\TextToSpeech\V1\ListVoicesRequest;

function list_voices(): void
{
    // create client object
    $client = new TextToSpeechClient();

    // perform list voices request
    $request = (new ListVoicesRequest());
    $response = $client->listVoices($request);
    $voices = $response->getVoices();

    foreach ($voices as $voice) {
        // display the voice's name. example: tpc-vocoded
        printf('Name: %s' . PHP_EOL, $voice->getName());

        // display the supported language codes for this voice. example: 'en-US'
        foreach ($voice->getLanguageCodes() as $languageCode) {
            printf('Supported language: %s' . PHP_EOL, $languageCode);
        }

        // SSML voice gender values from TextToSpeech\V1\SsmlVoiceGender
        $ssmlVoiceGender = ['SSML_VOICE_GENDER_UNSPECIFIED', 'MALE', 'FEMALE',
        'NEUTRAL'];

        // display the SSML voice gender
        $gender = $voice->getSsmlGender();
        printf('SSML voice gender: %s' . PHP_EOL, $ssmlVoiceGender[$gender]);

        // display the natural hertz rate for this voice
        printf('Natural Sample Rate Hertz: %d' . PHP_EOL,
            $voice->getNaturalSampleRateHertz());
    }

    $client->close();
}

Python

To learn how to install and use the client library for Text-to-Speech, see Text-to-Speech client libraries. For more information, see the Text-to-Speech Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Text-to-Speech, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

def list_voices():
    """Lists the available voices."""
    from google.cloud import texttospeech

    client = texttospeech.TextToSpeechClient()

    # Performs the list voices request
    voices = client.list_voices()

    for voice in voices.voices:
        # Display the voice's name. Example: tpc-vocoded
        print(f"Name: {voice.name}")

        # Display the supported language codes for this voice. Example: "en-US"
        for language_code in voice.language_codes:
            print(f"Supported language: {language_code}")

        ssml_gender = texttospeech.SsmlVoiceGender(voice.ssml_gender)

        # Display the SSML Voice Gender
        print(f"SSML Voice Gender: {ssml_gender.name}")

        # Display the natural sample rate hertz for this voice. Example: 24000
        print(f"Natural Sample Rate Hertz: {voice.natural_sample_rate_hertz}\n")

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