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EAlfaro
Feb 10, 2021Copper Contributor
Learning/Training Different Accents
Would Speech services eventually have the ability to adjust to different accents. i.e. A user would be asked to introduce themselves and maybe even where they were born and raised. That then inform...
HeikoRa
Microsoft
Feb 10, 2021Our general goal is to have good coverage of accents in our models. As a developer you could use our Speech Customization to adapt, though it would require more data than just a short introduction. See here Custom Speech overview - Speech service - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs
- AlimaSamFeb 10, 2021Copper Contributor
EAlfaro I hadn't seen the Custom Speech model documentation yet, and I think it could be helpful for us. I'm curious how we could scale it to adapt to our different users.
- HeikoRaFeb 10, 2021
Microsoft
AlimaSam you can automate the training using our REST API see here: https://westus.dev.cognitive.microsoft.com/docs/services/speech-to-text-api-v3-0
You would need to create an endpoint for each user though which comes with some hosting cost.