---
name: "speech_list_voices"
area: "speech"
title: "List voices"
price: "free"
method: "POST"
url: "https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/speech_list_voices"
mcp_server: "https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/speech"
auth: "Authorization: Bearer <conecto_sk_ key>"
docs_url: "https://conecto.chat/tools/speech/speech_list_voices"
---

# List voices (`speech_list_voices`)

The stock voices text can be read aloud in; each speaks about 30 languages, and the text decides which.

The voices speech_synthesize can use. Each speaks about 30 languages; the text decides the language.

Price: Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month for the whole account, then $0.50 per 10,000 reads. A call that fails costs nothing.

## Use it when

Before making speech, to pick a voice.

## Say this to your agent

> Which voices can you record our greeting in?

## Inputs

This tool takes no arguments: send `{}`.

## Example

Written for Halverson Cycle & Repair, a bike shop with a repair workshop in Portland, Oregon.

MCP: call `speech_list_voices` on the MCP server `https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/speech` with these arguments:

```json
{}
```

REST:

```bash
curl https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/speech_list_voices \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CONECTO_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'
```

## Response

```json
{
  "call_id": "5f0c8a2e-3b7d-4c1e-9a64-2d8e1f7b0c93",
  "tool": "speech_list_voices",
  "status": "succeeded",
  "replayed": false,
  "cost_usd": "$0.00",
  "balance_usd": "$19.75",
  "result": {
    "voices": [
      {
        "voice": "george",
        "name": "George",
        "style": "Narrative"
      },
      {
        "voice": "sarah",
        "name": "Sarah",
        "style": "Soft"
      }
    ]
  }
}
```

`result`: voices: each with its voice id, name and style.

## Errors

This tool has no errors of its own.

The refusals every tool can give (401 key, 402 balance, 429 limits) are on the errors page: https://conecto.chat/docs/errors.md

## Related

- [speech_transcribe](https://conecto.chat/tools/speech/speech_transcribe.md): Turns the speech in an audio or video file from the store into text, in about 100 languages, with speakers and timestamps if asked. $0.01 per started minute of audio.
- [speech_synthesize](https://conecto.chat/tools/speech/speech_synthesize.md): Reads text aloud in a stock voice and saves the MP3 in the file store with a download link; up to 5,000 characters a call. $0.07 per 1,000 characters, rounded up, up to $0.35.