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Azure AI Neural TTS enhanced expressiveness for Chinese voices with upgraded prosody breaks

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nickzhao
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Jun 28, 2023
Co-authors: Zhihang Xu, Yuchao Zhang, Zheng Niu, Xi Wang, Lei He, Sheng Zhao   Chinese is one of the most widely spoken languages worldwide. Azure Neural TTS offers dozens of highly human-like di...
Updated Jun 29, 2023
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Tadatada
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Nov 10, 2023

I think the long drag in speech is a big problem, for example, as to "捕捉水牛" and "猫科动物" in "捕捉水牛需要一定技巧，并非所有猫科动物都掌握了这种本领" , there are a very long drag in "牛"and "物" which is a big problem because it will become wierd when I cut it by Audition, as well as a long pause which is not that disturbing as it can be deleted by Audition.