This page documents production updates to Cloud TTS. You can periodically check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality. You can see the latest product updates for all of Google Cloud on the [Google Cloud](https://docs.cloud.google.com/release-notes.md.txt) page, browse and filter all release notes in the [Google Cloud console](https://console.cloud.google.com/release-notes), or programmatically access release notes in [BigQuery](https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?p=bigquery-public-data&d=google_cloud_release_notes&t=release_notes&page=table). To get the latest product updates delivered to you, add the URL of this page to your [feed reader](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators), or add the [feed URL](https://docs.cloud.google.com/feeds/tts-release-notes.xml) directly. ## December 30, 2025 Feature Chirp 3: HD voices now support speech synthesis in Preview for the Chinese (Hong Kong) `yue-HK` language. For more information, see [Chirp 3: Language Availability](https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/chirp3-hd#language_availability). ## December 12, 2025 Feature Chirp 3: HD voices now support speech synthesis in Preview for the Punjabi (`pa-IN`) language. For more information, see [Chirp 3: Language Availability](https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/chirp3-hd#language_availability). ## December 11, 2025 Feature Our latest Gemini TTS models are now available in more regions. - `gemini-2.5-pro-tts`: global, us, eu - `gemini-2.5-flash-tts`: global, us, eu, and northamerica-northeast1 - `gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-tts`: global, us, eu, and northamerica-northeast1 For more information on how to take advantage of the extended regional availability, see the [Gemini TTS](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/gemini-tts.md.txt#available_regions) page. ## November 10, 2025 Feature Chirp 3: HD voices now support speech synthesis in the following languages: `bg-BG`, `cs-CZ`, `et-EE`, `el-GR`, `he-IL`, `hr-HR`, `hu-HU`, `lt-LT`, `lv-LV`, `ro-RO`, `sk-SK`, `sl-SI`, and `sr-RS`. For more information, see [Chirp 3: Language Availability](https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/chirp3-hd#language_availability). ## November 07, 2025 Change Gemini TTS now supports relaxing safety filters for accounts with [monthly invoiced billing](https://docs.cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/invoiced-billing.md.txt). For more information, see the [Gemini TTS](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/gemini-tts.md.txt#relaxing_safety_filters) page. Feature Gemini TTS now supports synthesis for streaming requests. For more information, see the [Gemini TTS](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/gemini-tts.md.txt#perform_streaming_single-speaker_synthesis) page. ## October 21, 2025 Change Chirp 3: instant custom voice now supports voice cloning key generation in the `eu` and `us` regions. For more information, see the [Chirp 3: instant custom voice](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/chirp3-instant-custom-voice.md.txt#use_chirp_3_hd_voice_controls) page. ## October 17, 2025 Feature Chirp 3 HD now supports speech synthesis using SSML input. Supported SSML tags are: ``, `

`, ``, ``, and ``. For more information, see [Chirp 3 HD: SSML support](https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/chirp3-hd#chirp3-hd-ssml). ## September 30, 2025 Feature We just released Gemini-2.5 TTS Flash (`gemini-2.5-flash-tts`) and Pro (`gemini-2.5-pro-tts`) in GA with support for 30 speakers in 80 or more locales. The latest models enable granular control over style, accent, pace, and emotion using natural language prompts. This release supports single and multi-speaker synthesis for applications ranging from short commands to long-form narratives. For more information, see the [Gemini TTS documentation page](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/gemini-tts.md.txt). Announcement Gemini-TTS is [generally available (GA)](https://cloud.google.com/products?e=48754805#product-launch-stages) and provides support for 30 voices and over 70 locales. You can synthesize single or multi-speaker speech from short snippets to long-form narratives. You can precisely dictate style, accent, pace, tone, and even emotional expression using natural-language prompts. For more information, see [Gemini TTS](https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/gemini-tts). Give it a try in [Media Studio](https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/studio/media/generate;tab=audio). ## September 15, 2025 Change Chirp 3: HD voices is available on the `asia-northeast1` endpoint. For more information, see [Chirp 3: HD voices](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/chirp3-hd.md.txt). ## August 27, 2025 Change Chirp 3: instant custom voice supports the Chirp 3: HD voice controls for pace control, pause control, and custom pronunciations. For more information, see the [Chirp 3: instant custom voice](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/chirp3-instant-custom-voice.md.txt#use_chirp_3_hd_voice_controls) page. Change Chirp 3: HD voices is available on the `europe-west2` endpoint. For more information, see [Chirp 3: HD voices](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/chirp3-hd.md.txt). ## August 21, 2025 Change Chirp 3: Instant custom voice supports new input audio encodings `PCM`, `MP3`, and `M4A`, with any sample rate. For more information, see the [Chirp 3: Instant custom voice](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/chirp3-instant-custom-voice.md.txt) page. ## July 24, 2025 Change Chirp 3: HD voices now offers General Availability (GA) support for four additional Nordic languages: Danish (`da-DK`), Finnish (`fi-FI`), Norwegian Bokmål (`nb-NO`), and Swedish (`sv-SE`). For more information, see [Chirp 3: HD voices](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/chirp3-hd.md.txt). ## June 18, 2025 Change Chirp 3: Instant Custom Voice now extends support to ja-JP, now supporting more than 30 locales. For more information, check the [Chirp 3: Instant Custom Voice documentation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/chirp3-instant-custom-voice.md.txt). ## May 07, 2025 Change We just released three new voice features for Chirp 3: HD Voices. Pace control is available across all locales; pause control is available across all locales; custom pronunciations is available across all locales except bn-in, gu-in, nl-be, sw-ke, th-th, uk-ua, ur-in, and vi-vn. Be sure to check our [Chirp 3: HD Voices documentation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/chirp3-hd.md.txt#chirp3-hd-voice-controls) for more information. ## April 16, 2025 Change The [polyglot voices feature](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/polyglot.md.txt) is only supported in multi-regions. ## April 02, 2025 Announcement Chirp 3: HD voices with 8 speakers and 31 locales is now GA. It offers real-time streaming and batch processing capabilities and is accessible in global, us, eu, and asia-southeast1 regions. Explore the latest Chirp 3: HD voices capabilities. Find out their full potential by visiting our updated [documentation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/chirp3-hd.md.txt), specifically the [voice controls section](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/chirp3-hd.md.txt#chirp3-hd-voice-controls). ## March 27, 2025 Change Chirp 3: HD voices in en-US now support experimental features for pace and pause controls. ## March 17, 2025 Change Chirp 3: HD voices are only available in the global, us, eu, and asia-southeast1 regions. To use these voices, switch your endpoint to a supported region. ## March 06, 2025 Change Chirp 3: HD voices now supports 8 new speakers in 31 new locales: ar-XA, bn-IN, cmn-CN, de-DE, en-AU, en-GB, en-IN, en-US, es-ES, es-US, fr-CA, fr-FR, gu-IN, hi-IN, id-ID, it-IT, ja-JP, kn-IN, ko-KR, ml-IN, mr-IN, nl-NL, pl-PL, pt-BR, ru-RU, sw-KE, ta-IN, te-IN, th-TH, tr-TR, and vi-VN. ## February 10, 2025 Change Journey voices have been rebranded as [Chirp HD voices](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voice-types). ## December 03, 2024 Change Journey Voices now supports the Journey-O speaker for de-de, en-au, en-in, en-gb, es-es, es-us, fr-ca, fr-fr, and it-it. ## November 22, 2024 Change Cloud TTS Journey voices have been updated to improve the accuracy of generated speech. This means you should notice fewer instances of dropped words. ## November 11, 2024 Change [Journey Voices](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voice-types#journey_voices_preview) now supports the de-de, en-gb, en-in, es-us, fr-ca, fr-fr, and it-it locales. ## October 30, 2024 Change [Studio Voices](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voice-types#overview) now support [synthesis with multiple speakers](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/create-dialogue-with-multispeakers) to generate audios for interviews, interactive storytelling, video games, e-learning platforms, and accessibility solutions. ## October 18, 2024 Change [Journey Voices](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voice-types#journey_voices_preview) and [streaming synthesis](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/create-audio-text-streaming.md.txt) now support the de-de, en-gb, en-in, es-us, fr-ca, fr-fr, and it-it locales. ## September 10, 2024 Announcement [Journey Voices](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voice-types#journey_voices_preview) is now in Preview and supports text [streaming](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/reference/rpc/google.cloud.texttospeech.v1.md.txt#google.cloud.texttospeech.v1.TextToSpeech.StreamingSynthesize). ## May 14, 2024 Change Cloud Text-to-Speech now offers updated Journey voices with an additional speaker, en-us-Journey-O. ## April 19, 2024 Change Cloud Text-to-Speech now offers es-ES Studio voices: es-ES-Studio-C and es-ES-Studio-F ## February 26, 2024 Announcement [Casual](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voice-types#casual_voices_preview) voices are now in preview. Announcement [Studio](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voice-types#studio_voices_preview) voices are now GA. ## December 29, 2023 Announcement [Journey](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voice-types#journey_voices) voices are now in experimental. ## November 29, 2023 Announcement Cloud Text-to-Speech now offers de-DE and fr-FR Studio voices: de-DE-Studio-B, de-DE-Studio-C, fr-FR-Studio-A, and fr-FR-Studio-D. ## November 06, 2023 Change As of November 13 2023, speaker `en-US-Studio-M` will no longer be available. All requests sent to `en-US-Studio-M` will be routed to speaker `en-US-Studio-Q`. There is no action needed. ## November 03, 2023 Announcement Cloud Text-to-Speech now offers `en-GB` Studio voices: `en-GB-Studio-B` and `en-GB-Studio-C`. ## October 25, 2023 Feature [Styles](https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/ssml#styles) are now supported in Neural2 voices through SSML. The following styles are supported - `` - `` - `` - `` - `` for the following voices: - en-us-Neural2-F - en-us-Neural2-J
## October 24, 2023 Announcement [Studio](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/wavenet#studio_voices_preview) voices now support 5,000 bytes of either text or SSML input per synthesis request. Feature [Long Audio Synthesis](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/create-audio-text-long-audio-synthesis.md.txt) now supports SSML inputs. Feature [Long Audio Synthesis](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/create-audio-text-long-audio-synthesis.md.txt) now supports [Studio voices](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/wavenet#studio_voices_preview). ## October 16, 2023 Feature The Long Audio Synthesis API now supports the following languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Thai, Vietnamese, Danish, Filipino. Change There is no longer billing differentiation for Cloud Text-to-Speech Offline Custom Voice API calls. See the `` [documentation](https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/reference/rest/v1/VoiceSelectionParams#reportedusage) for more details. ## June 28, 2023 Change Studio voices now support SSML, except for the following tags: ``, ``, ``, and `` ## March 16, 2023 Feature Cloud Text-to-Speech now offers Long Audio Synthesis. This new API can be used to synthesize texts longer than 5 KB. For more information about API usage using the command line, see [Create long audio from text by using the command line](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/create-audio-text-long-audio-synthesis.md.txt). ## March 06, 2023 Announcement Text-to-Speech now offers a Spanish Studio voice, `es-US-Studio-B`, in addition to its existing English Studio voices. ## February 16, 2023 Feature Text-to-Speech offers these new voices. See the supported voices page for a complete list of voices and audio samples. - eu-ES-Standard-A - gl-ES-Standard-A ## February 08, 2023 Change Text-to-Speech now offers Studio voices. This voice type is designed specifically for use with long-form texts such as narration and news reading. See the [supported voices page](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices) for a complete list of voices and audio samples. 1. en-US-Studio-M 2. en-US-Studio-O ## January 10, 2023 Announcement On or after July 9th, 2023, Cloud Text-to-Speech will replace the following voices with new voices of similar quality and accent. The new voices are available to try now. No action will be needed from you to switch to the new voice on July 9th, 2023. However, you are free to switch to the new voice at any time. - Removing ml-IN-Standard-A - Redirecting to ml-IN-Standard-C - Removing ml-IN-Wavenet-A - Redirecting ml-IN-Wavenet-C - Removing ml-IN-Standard-B - Redirecting to ml-IN-Standard-D - Removing ml-IN-Wavenet-B - Redirecting ml-IN-Wavenet-D - Removing bn-IN-Standard-A - Redirecting to bn-IN-Standard-C - Removing bn-IN-Wavenet-A - Redirecting bn-IN-Wavenet-C - Removing bn-IN-Standard-B - Redirecting to bn-IN-Standard-D - Removing bn-IN-Wavenet-B - Redirecting bn-IN-Wavenet-D - Removing kn-IN-Standard-A - Redirecting to kn-IN-Standard-C - Removing kn-IN-Wavenet-A - Redirecting kn-IN-Wavenet-C - Removing kn-IN-Standard-B - Redirecting to kn-IN-Standard-D - Removing kn-IN-Wavenet-B - Redirecting kn-IN-Wavenet-D - Removing gu-IN-Standard-A - Redirecting to gu-IN-Standard-C - Removing gu-IN-Wavenet-A - Redirecting gu-IN-Wavenet-C - Removing gu-IN-Standard-B - Redirecting to gu-IN-Standard-D - Removing gu-IN-Wavenet-B - Redirecting gu-IN-Wavenet-D - Removing it-IT-Standard-A - Redirecting to it-IT-Standard-B - Removing it-IT-Wavenet-A - Redirecting to it-IT-Wavenet-B - Removing es-ES-Standard-A - Redirecting to es-ES-Standard-C ## December 22, 2022 Feature Text-to-Speech now offers these new news reading voices. See the [supported voices page](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices) for a complete list of voices and audio samples. 1. es-US-News-D 2. es-US-News-E 3. es-US-News-F 4. es-US-News-G 5. en-AU-News-E 6. en-AU-News-F 7. en-AU-News-G 8. en-GB-News-G 9. en-GB-News-H 10. en-GB-News-I 11. en-GB-News-J 12. en-GB-News-K 13. en-GB-News-L 14. en-GB-News-M Feature Text-to-Speech now offers these new voices. See the [supported voices page](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices) for a complete list of voices and audio samples. 1. ml-IN-Wavenet-C 2. ml-IN-Wavenet-D Note these voices are bilingual with en-IN. ## November 29, 2022 Announcement Text-to-Speech now offers additional Neural2 voices across 9 locales with 40+ speakers. Voices are available in the us-central1, us, and eu endpoints. See the [supported voices](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices) page for a complete list of voices and audio samples. ## November 10, 2022 Change Text-to-Speech now offers these new voices. See the [supported voices page](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices) for a complete list of voices and audio samples. 1. en-US-News-K 2. en-US-News-L 3. en-US-News-M 4. en-US-News-N ## October 24, 2022 Change Text-to-Speech improved the quality of these voices. See the [supported voices page](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices) for a complete list of voices and audio samples. 1. en-GB-Wavenet-A 2. en-GB-Wavenet-B 3. en-GB-Wavenet-C 4. en-GB-Wavenet-D 5. en-GB-Wavenet-F 6. es-ES-Wavenet-B 7. es-ES-Wavenet-C 8. es-ES-Wavenet-D 9. hi-IN-Wavenet-A 10. hi-IN-Wavenet-B 11. hi-IN-Wavenet-C 12. hi-IN-Wavenet-D ## October 07, 2022 Change On or after April 8th, 2023, Cloud Text-to-Speech will replace the following voices with new voices of similar quality and accent. The new voices are available to try now. No action will be needed from you to switch to the new voice on April 8th, 2023. However, you are free to switch to the new voice at anytime 1. Removing **ta-IN-Standard-A** 1. Redirecting to **ta-IN-Standard-C** 2. Removing **ta-IN-Wavenet-A** 1. Redirecting to **ta-IN-Wavenet-C** 3. Removing **ta-IN-Standard-B** 1. Redirecting to **ta-IN-Standard-D** 4. Removing **ta-IN-Wavenet-B** 1. Redirecting to **ta-IN-Wavenet-D** 5. Removing **pt-BR-Standard-A** 1. Redirecting to **pt-BR-Standard-C** 6. Removing **pt-BR-Wavenet-A** 1. Redirecting to **pt-BR-Wavenet-C** 7. Removing **ja-JP-Standard-A** 1. Redirecting to **ja-JP-Standard-B** 8. Removing **ja-JP-Wavenet-A** 1. Redirecting to **ja-JP-Wavenet-B** Change Text-to-Speech now offers these new voices. See the [supported voices page](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices) for a complete list of voices and audio samples. 1. mr-IN-Wavenet-A 2. mr-IN-Standard-A 3. mr-IN-Wavenet-B 4. mr-IN-Standard-B 5. mr-IN-Wavenet-C 6. mr-IN-Standard-C ## September 01, 2022 Change Text-to-Speech now offers these new voices. See the supported voices page for a complete list of voices and audio samples. 1. ta-IN-Wavenet-C 2. ta-IN-Standard-C 3. ta-IN-Wavenet-D 4. ta-IN-Standard-D ## August 19, 2022 Change Text-to-Speech has improved the quality of these voices 1. pt-br-Standard-A 2. pt-br-Standard-B ## August 05, 2022 Feature Text-to-Speech now offers these new voices. See the [supported voices page](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices) for a complete list of voices and audio samples. 1. pt-BR-Standard-C 2. pt-BR-Wavenet-C ## June 27, 2022 Announcement Cloud Text-to-Speech now supports Neural2 voices in addition to Standard and WaveNet voice generation models. Neural2 uses [Custom Voice](https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/custom-voice/docs) technology without the need to train a unique voice. Neural2 voices are in Preview and are currently available in a single region for a [limited number of languages](https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices). ## March 09, 2022 Feature Text-to-Speech now offers regional endpoints for the following places. See the How-to guides for more information on how to use these endpoints. - Europe - https://eu-texttospeech.googleapis.com - US - https://us-texttospeech.googleapis.com ## June 17, 2021 Feature Text-to-Speech now offers voices in the following new languages. See the supported voices page for a complete list of voices and audio samples. - ms-MY (Malay, Malaysia) - nl-BE (Dutch, Belgium) ## April 09, 2021 Feature Text-to-Speech now offers voices in the following new languages. See the [supported voices page](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices) for a complete list of voices and audio samples. - es-US (Spanish, US) - af-ZA (Afrikaans, South Africa) - bg-BG (Bulgarian, Bulgaria) - ca-ES (Catalan, Spain) - is-IS (Icelandic, Iceland) - lv-LV (Latvian, Latvia) - sr-RS (Serbian, Cyrillic) ## April 07, 2021 Feature Text-to-Speech now supports MULAW and ALAW audio encodings. See the [`AudioEncoding` reference documentation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/reference/rest/v1beta1/text/synthesize.md.txt#audioencoding) for details. ## March 01, 2021 Feature Text-to-Speech has launched Beta support of [new SSML tags](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/ssml-beta): ``, ``, ``, ``, and `` to specify durations. See the [phonemes](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/phonemes.md.txt) for a list of phonemes available for your language. Fixed Text-to-Speech has improved the continuity of mixed-media results. Now when you mix text and sounds within a `/` block, Text-to-Speech generates a much shorter pause and better transition between the synthesized speech and the sound. Fixed Support for the `` SSML tag has been enhanced to produce continuous TTS when possible. - Text-to-speech has resolved an issue that affected how volume changes are calculated, resulting in different but correct behavior. - Text-to-speech has resolved an issue that affected how pitch changes are calculated, resulting in different but correct behavior. Announcement Text-to-Speech has improved its handling of speech synthesis requests sent using SSML markup. Fixed Text-to-Speech has improved the verbalization and pacing of phone numbers. ## January 22, 2021 Feature New language: Text-to-Speech now supports Romanian (ro-RO). See the [supported voices page](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices) for details and audio samples. Feature New voice: Text-to-Speech now offers 2 new Bengali (bn-IN) WaveNet voices. See the [supported voices page](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices) for details and audio samples. ## August 24, 2020 Feature Text-to-Speech now offers four new Chinese (Hong Kong) voices, available as Standard models. See the [supported voices and languages](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices) page for more details. Feature Text-to-Speech now offers four new English (US) voices, available as both WaveNet and Standard models. See the [supported voices and languages](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices) page for more details. ## May 01, 2020 Feature Cloud Text-to-Speech now offers 36 new voices (both Standard and WaveNet) in the following languages. See the [Supported Voices and Languages](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices) page for complete details. - Arabic - Bengali (India) - English (India) - French (France) - German (Germany) - Gujarati (India) - Hindi (India) - Indonesian (Indonesia) - Kannada (India) - Malayalam (India) - Mandarin Chinese - Russian (Russia) - Tamil (India) - Telugu (India) - Thai (Thailand) ## August 27, 2019 Feature Cloud Text-to-Speech now offers 76 new voices, both standard and WaveNet, in the following languages: - Arabic - Czech - Dutch - English (India) - Filipino - Finnish - Greek - Hindi - Hungarian - Indonesian - Italian - Japanese - Mandarin Chinese - Norwegian - Vietnamese ## February 05, 2019 Feature The [audio profile](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/audio-profiles.md.txt) feature is generally available for use in new applications. Cloud Text-to-Speech API now allows developers to specify an audio profile for the audio generated from Cloud Text-to-Speech API. Audio profiles are optimized for specific hardware used for playback, from headphones to car stereos. Feature Added new Standard and WaveNet voices in the following languages and variants: - Danish (Denmark) - Polish (Poland) - Portuguese (Brazil) - Russian (Russia) - Slovak (Slovakia) - Turkish (Turkey) - Ukrainian (Ukraine) Review the [voices list](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices) for complete details. ## August 28, 2018 Feature Cloud Text-to-Speech API general availability (GA) release. This release includes the public availability of the v1 API endpoint, both in [REST](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/reference/rest.md.txt) and [RPC](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/reference/rpc/google.cloud.texttospeech.v1.md.txt). ## July 24, 2018 Feature Added new WaveNet voices in the following languages and variants: - Dutch (Netherlands) - English (Australia) - English (UK) - German - Italian - Japanese Review the [voices list](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices) for complete details. Feature Cloud Text-to-Speech API now allows developers to specify an [audio profile](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/audio-profiles.md.txt) for the audio generated from Cloud Text-to-Speech API. Audio profiles are optimized for specific hardware used for playback, from headphones to car stereos. ## June 01, 2018 Feature Added Korean (ko-KR) voice. Review the [voices list](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices) for complete details. ## March 27, 2018 Feature Cloud Text-to-Speech API is now available in beta. ## March 20, 2018 Change The names of voices provided for speech synthesis in the Text-to-Speech API have changed. Previous versions of the voice names do not work. To see the list of voices provided in the Text-to-Speech API including the correct names, see the [voice list](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices). ## March 02, 2018 Change The `gender` field changed to `ssmlGender`. ## February 02, 2018 Change Add voices in the following languages: - English (US) - French (Canada) - Dutch - Portuguese (Brazil) - Swedish - Turkish See the [voices list](https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices) for complete details. ## November 10, 2017 Feature Cloud Text-to-Speech API Alpha release.