TTS voice names: Brian, Justin, Joey, Salli and more
Stream alerts, memes and old videos made a handful of text-to-speech names famous: Brian, Justin, Joey, Salli, Kimberly, Matthew, Ivy. People search for them by name to hear them again or to use them.
Most of these names are voices of Amazon Polly, Amazon’s text-to-speech service. This guide shows which is which, how they are used, and where to find a voice your viewers have not heard a thousand times.
Where the names come from
Amazon Polly lists its voices by name. For US English they include Joanna, Kendra, Kimberly and Salli (female), Joey and Matthew (male), Ivy (a girl’s voice) and Justin and Kevin (boys’ voices); for British English, Amy, Emma, Brian and Arthur. Stream alert tools built text to speech on cloud voices like these, which is why their names became familiar.
Who is who
Brian: British English, male. Justin: US English, a boy’s voice. Joey and Matthew: US English, male. Salli, Kimberly, Joanna and Kendra: US English, female. Ivy: US English, a girl’s voice. Our Brian and Ivy guides tell their stories in more detail.
Using these voices
Polly itself is a paid cloud service billed per character, used from an AWS account through its console or API, which can save speech as MP3. Many stream alert tools offer some of these voices directly in their text-to-speech settings.
A fresh voice for your alerts
The SuperClonica catalog has voices viewers do not know by heart: game, cartoon and anime characters, narrators, announcers and kids’ voices. Type a line of 30 to 100 characters on any voice page and hear it free, with no account. To voice alerts on your own PC, install the free engine with python -m pip install superclonica-cpu; our Streamer.bot guide shows a ready setup.