Voices, Voice IDs, and Supported Languages
Curated voice IDs you can paste straight into a TTS request, plus the API call for filtering the full 217-voice catalog. The model cards remain the canonical source for the complete catalog — this page is the fastest path from “I need a voice” to “I have a voice_id”.
Pairing rule. Lightning v3.1 voice IDs only work with "model": "lightning_v3.1" (or with model omitted — the default). Lightning v3.1 Pro voice IDs only work with "model": "lightning_v3.1_pro". Mismatched pairing returns synthesised audio in the wrong voice or no audio at all. See the Pro model card and v3.1 model card for the full catalogs.
Quick pick by use case
Lightning v3.1 Pro — by accent + gender
Premium pool with a curated catalog. English-only across all voices; Indian Pro voices additionally code-switch to Hindi when language: hi is set (or language is omitted, defaulting to en + hi).
American (18 voices)
Female: kaitlyn, savannah, amelia, zoe, ruby, leah, jenna, kate, molly, sara, fiona
Male: blake, austin, henry, jack, leo, luke, owen
British (12 voices)
Female: sophie, ellie, cressida, ottilie, elowen, seraphina
Male: sam, henry, benedict, cormac, rupert, finley
Indian (13 voices — code-switch English + Hindi)
Female: rhea, zariya, kareena, mishka, inaaya, saira, meher, aarini
Male: aviraj, vyom, zoravar, reyansh, ahan
See the Pro model card voice catalog for ranking notes.
Lightning v3.1 — standard pool
217 voices total across 12 languages — English (176), Hindi (115), Tamil (13), Spanish (11), Kannada (10), Marathi (9), Telugu (8), Odia (8), Punjabi (8), Malayalam (6), Gujarati (5), Bengali (4). Voices below are the curated short-list; the v3.1 model card has the full catalog.
English (American) — 20 voices
Male: jordan, robert, johnny, lucas, magnus, ronald, blofeld, zorin, felix, malcolm
Female: lauren, hannah, vanessa, brooke, olivia, rachel, nicole, elizabeth, ilsa, christine
English (other accents) — 3 voices
Indic (Hindi + Indian-English) — 21 voices
Female: sunidhi, chinmayi, aanya, siya, anuja, avni, ishani, yuvika, advika, sana, sameera, srishti, sakshi, maya
Male: wasim, rehan, parth, atharv, vivaan, devansh, aarush
Tamil — 2 voices
Telugu — 2 voices
Kannada — 2 voices
Malayalam — 2 voices
Marathi — 2 voices
Gujarati — 2 voices
Spanish — 7 voices
Fetch the full catalog programmatically
For filtering by language / accent / gender / use case across the full 217 voices, query the live catalog. The response includes both standard Lightning v3.1 voices and Pro voices, distinguished by their tags.
Voice object shape
Each entry in the voices array has:
Supported languages
For per-language voice counts that always reflect the live catalog, query GET /waves/v1/lightning-v3.1/get_voices and group by tags.language. For the canonical per-voice metadata, see the Lightning v3.1 model card voice catalog and Lightning v3.1 Pro voice catalog.
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