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Question: For Chinese, what voice options can we use in Google Cloud Text-to-Speech similar to the en-US-Journey voices?

Answer:

Google Cloud Text-to-Speech supports Mandarin Chinese (Mainland China, code: cmn-CN or zh-CN) and Chinese (Hong Kong) (Cantonese, code: yue-HK or zh-HK).

Unlike English, there are currently no Journey voices available for Chinese (the Journey series appears limited to certain languages like en-US, en-GB, etc.).

Here are the main voice options for Mandarin Chinese (cmn-CN / zh-CN) that you can use in VoiceSelectionParams(name=...):

For Hong Kong Cantonese (yue-HK / zh-HK), options include Standard and possibly newer models (e.g., recent additions of four Standard voices for Chinese (Hong Kong)).

To get the full and up-to-date list (as voices are added over time), run this in your code:

from google.cloud import texttospeech

client = texttospeech.TextToSpeechClient()
voices = client.list_voices(language_code="cmn-CN")  # or "zh-CN", "yue-HK"
for voice in voices.voices:
    print(voice.name, voice.ssml_gender)

You can then randomly select from a list like:

voice_options = [
    "cmn-CN-Neural2-A", "cmn-CN-Neural2-B",
    "cmn-CN-Neural2-C", "cmn-CN-Neural2-D",
    "cmn-CN-Wavenet-A", "cmn-CN-Wavenet-D",  # etc.
]
voice_name = random.choice(voice_options)

Your language_code should be "cmn-CN" (or "zh-CN") for Mandarin input text.

The rest of your code (e.g., effects_profile_id for small-bluetooth-speaker-class-device) works the same way.

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