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speech recognition, speech to text, text to speech
Hello! My name is Marin Benkin and I am an owner of a little company in Bulgaria and I am interested to create neural voices in my language and to improve speech recognition. What time was to do to ...
edwardun
Microsoft
MicrosoftHi Marin, we support Bulgarian neural voices today, one male and female (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/language-support#neural-voices). Custom Neural Voice currently does not support Bulgarian at this point but it is in our roadmap. In the meantime, please try out our Neural Voices and let us know your feedback.
edwardun I had made a lot of experiments with these voices and the biggest problem there is that they cannot pronounce medical terms.
I have a platform for online rehabilitation and I need to make voices for my videos.
- edwardun
Benkin , have you try <phoneme> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/speech-synthesis-markup?tabs=csharp#use-phonemes-to-improve-pronunciation to improve the pronunciations? Also, you can put that in a custom lexicon (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/speech-synthesis-markup?tabs=csharp#use-custom-lexicon-to-improve-pronunciation).
edwardun Yes I tried, but the results are unsatisfactory and this is the reason I want to create custom neural voice
- edwardun
Hi Benkin , yes Bulgarian for Custom Neural Voice is in our roadmap and we might be able to get to a private preview soon. Please apply to http://aka.ms/customvoice to request for building a Custom Neural Voice and specify you want to build a voice in Bulgarian. If you get approved, we might be able to get you to the private preview list.