Matthew Text to Speech — AI Newscast Voice Generator
Generate audio in Matthew TTS — the calm American male announcer voice from AWS Polly that has narrated a decade of podcast intros, corporate explainers, e-learning courses, and grounded-animation dads. Modern neural synthesis preserves the broadcast timbre creators have recognised since the Polly era.
Reach for this voice when a script needs that specific US-male newscast cadence — evening news bulletins, sponsor reads, training-video narration, documentary cold-opens. The PRO neural variant, Matthew plus, is the only Polly US-male voice with a dedicated newscast style — pick it when you want full anchor-desk gravitas.
Matthew at Three Pitches — Same Voice, Three Different Reads
Hold pitch 0 for the classic Polly podcast Matthew. Drop the pitch for documentary anchor-desk gravitas. Push it up for friendly podcast-host energy.
"Good evening. I'm Matthew — the American male newscast voice from AWS Polly."
The original sits at pitch 0 — clean, neutral American male TTS, exactly as Polly creators remember. Drop to −3 with speed 0.9 for documentary gravitas; push to +2 with speed 1.1 for the friendly podcast-host read. For a true broadcast anchor sound, switch to Matthew plus and add the newscast style — that combination is exclusive to the Polly US-male roster.
Where Creators Actually Use the Matthew Voice
Three scenes that are character-locked — not a generic American male TTS use case you could solve with any voice.
Evening News Bulletins & Documentary Cold-Opens
Switch to Matthew plus, add the newscast style, drop pitch to −3 and speed to 0.9 — the read lands as a primetime anchor delivering breaking news. Independent news YouTubers, geopolitics explainer channels, and documentary studios use this exact configuration when they want broadcast-grade gravitas without booking a voice actor. No other Polly US-male voice has the newscast style; this combination is the page's reason to exist.
Podcast Intros, Ad Reads & Sponsor Spots
At pitch +1 to +2 with speed 1.05–1.1, Matthew reads as a friendly podcast host — the cold-open "Welcome back to the show" cadence creators have leaned on since the early Polly era. The same setting handles 30-second sponsor reads cleanly: clear consonants, steady pacing, no synth-buzz on long product names. Indie podcasters use this slot when they cannot record themselves for every weekly intro.
Earnings-Call Recaps & Market-News Voiceovers
Turn on Matthew plus + newscast at pitch 0, speed 1.0 — quarterly-results recaps, fintech market wraps, geopolitics briefings and central-bank decision explainers come out sounding like a CNBC or Bloomberg segment rather than a generic narrator demo. The same configuration handles compliance training where the script is dense with figures and the audience expects an analyst-desk delivery, not e-learning sing-song. This is the use case that genuinely requires the newscast style; standard narrator voices can't fake it.
Pro Tips: Get the Most Out of Matthew
Use Matthew Plus + Newscast Style for Real Bulletins
If the script is an actual news read — headlines, market reports, breaking-story cold-opens — switch to Matthew plus and turn on the newscast style. It is the only style available on the entire Polly US-male roster, and it is what shifts the delivery from "narrator" to "anchor." Standard-tier Matthew at pitch −3 gets close, but the PRO style is the real thing.
Sentence-Level Breaks for Broadcast Pacing
News and documentary reads breathe between sentences. Write each headline as its own line — short subject, short verb, short object — instead of comma-chained clauses. Matthew handles those rhythm breaks natively without SSML; the audio comes out paced like a real anchor reading from a teleprompter, not like a paragraph being scrolled past.
Speed 1.05–1.1 for Podcast Cold-Opens
The "Welcome back to the show" energy is a speed lock, not just a pitch lock. At 1.0 the read sounds bookish; at 1.1 it sounds like a host who is already three minutes into their warm-up. Combine with pitch +1 or +2 and the cold-open lands as a real episode intro rather than a Polly demo.
Pair Matthew With Joey for the Full US-Male Range
When a project needs two distinct US-male voices in dialog — anchor + reporter, narrator + character, host + guest — Joey is the obvious second seat. Same IVONA / Polly heritage, different timbres: the anchor leans broadcast-professional, Joey leans grounded-dad. See Joey Voice TTS for the matching second-male side, or drop into Blake's deep voice when the scene needs a mature trailer-narrator counterpoint to the anchor read.
Ready-Made Scripts — Hear Matthew in Action
Two canonical demo scripts. Press play to hear, or open the project in the editor to tweak pitch and speed.
Evening News Bulletin
Matthew plus + stylenewscast — pitch 0, speed 1.0
Good evening. Tonight on World Report: markets closed mixed across Asia after the central bank announcement. In Washington, lawmakers reached a late-night compromise on the spending bill. And in sports — the championship final is set after two overtime upsets. We have full coverage. Stay with us.
Podcast Intro
pitch +1, speed 1.05 — friendly host energyWelcome back to The Long Read — the show where we slow down and actually think about the news. I'm your host, and this week we are unpacking why three small towns in the Midwest just rewrote their broadband contracts. Stick around. This one matters.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes — this is the US English male voice that Amazon Polly has shipped for years, originally from the IVONA TTS lineage Amazon acquired in 2013. The same timbre creators have used for podcast intros, e-learning narration, and GoAnimate-era videos is what plays when you press Convert. The engine has been upgraded to clean neural synthesis, but the recognisable broadcast sound is preserved.
Standard Matthew is the half-cost neural voice — closest to the Polly-era timbre creators recognise from years of use. The plus tier is the PRO neural upgrade — richer expression, smoother phrasing, and most importantly it carries the newscast speaking style. Same character, different engine tier; choose the plus variant whenever the script wants real anchor-desk gravitas.
Newscast is a Polly speaking style that re-tunes delivery for broadcast journalism — measured pacing, even prosody, slight downward intonation at sentence ends, none of the conversational lilt that gives away a "narrator" read. On the US-male roster, Matthew plus is the only voice that ships the newscast style. Activate it when you script real news bulletins or documentary cold-opens.
SpeechGen routes to the same Amazon neural engine — so the audio that comes out matches the Polly read you would hear via the AWS console: same speaker, same cadence, same neural synthesis. The difference is the editor on top: no AWS account, no IAM keys, no per-character billing for small jobs. Pick the voice, paste text, press Convert, download MP3. The 1,000-character free quota lets you preview the result before committing to a paid plan.
Yes — both are common pairings. Joey is the matching US-male voice for grounded-animation dialog and second-narrator slots, same Polly heritage but a grounded-dad timbre instead of broadcast-professional. Brian is the UK-male sibling for transatlantic anchor/reporter scenes. Drop both lines into the same project and the audio renders as a single multi-voice scene.
Ready to Hear Matthew Read Your Text?
Paste any text, hit Convert, download the MP3. Takes about 30 seconds.