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Knelf
Copper Contributor
Oct 07, 2021

Bring back Mia (Azure Text to Speech English Natural Voice) - removed/missing 7/10/2021

Hello 

 

Does anyone know what happened to the Mia voice? It was quite jarring and horrible to unexpectedly hear a sharp robotic american voice just now when I tried to have the browser read something to me.

 

I see there is a community discussion about the problem (https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/msedge_%20read-msedge_win10/text-to-speech-natural-voice-mia/856a4ad9-cbad-43da-8644-f82d009f31f8) on the wider microsoft forum but thought I'd raise this in the Edge forum too in case it gets to the developers/important people faster.

 

I sure hope this is a bug/mistake and not a deliberate decision to cull the voice. 

 

Thanks in anticipation of response from someone in the know about the issue

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    Fang627426
    Brass Contributor
    Jan 24, 2022
    Hi Knelf. The Mia voice was retired on 30 October 2021, so it's no longer available. So any requests to Mia will be redirected to Sonia, a replacement for the Mia voice.

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