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2/10/21 - Announcing an Azure Cognitive Services – Speech AMA!
We are very excited to announce an Azure Cognitive Services – Speech AMA! We'll be answering your questions on how to add capabilities like Text-to-Speech and Custom Neural Voice with Azure Speech se...
Additional resources to familiarize yourself with Text to Speech & CNV:
Text to Speech
For folks who are curious, in addition to the AI Show segment, you can also visit the Text-to-Speech product page and try the demo, which contains 200+ pre-built TTS voices - Check to see voices available in your preferred languages!
Custom Neural Voice (now in GA)
Last week, we announced that in addition to these pre-built TTS voices, you can build a custom neural voice (generally available- however you must apply to use this capability.)
To highlight one such example, below is an audio sample of the 'Flo' virtual chatbot from Progressive.
Custom Neural Voice Sample of 'Flo' from Progressive: