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 service. The AMA will take place on Wednesday, February 10, 2021 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. PT in the Azure AI AMA space. Add the event to your calendar and view in your time zone here. An AMA is a live online event similar to a “YamJam” on Yammer or an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit. This AMA gives you the opportunity to connect with Microsoft product experts who will be on hand to answer your questions and listen to feedback. Please note, if you are unable to participate on the day of the event, we will open up the space for new questions 24 hours before the event, so feel free to post your questions beforehand if it fits your schedule or time zone better. BEFORE THE EVENT - check out these resources: Learn more about text to speech capability: Build a natural custom voice for your brand (microsoft.com) Check out Friday's AI show featuring Edward Un and Sarah Bird!2/10/21: That's a wrap: Azure Cognitive Services – Speech AMA
Thank you for joining us for this action-packed hour and voicing your questions and feedback in this Azure Cognitive Services - Speech AMA! Please answer our poll here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-ai-ama/request-we-would-love-to-hear-your-feedback-on-your-tts-building/td-p/2120672 If you still have Cognitive Services questions, feel free to post in our Cognitive Services discussion space: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/cognitive-services/bd-p/CognitiveServices See summary of questions and answered attached!Welcome to the Azure Cognitive Services - Speech AMA!
Welcome to the Azure Cognitive Services - Speech Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA)! This live hour gives you the opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback. Please introduce yourself by replying to this thread. Post your questions in a new thread within the Azure AI AMA space, by clicking on, "Start a New Conversation" at the top of the page.
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 informs Azure Speech services that the user will likely have a particular accent thereby associating an interpreter that most closely aligns in order to improve accuracy of speech to text translation?
A few questions about Polish language support in t2s
Hi we're heavy users of the text 2 speech capability in Polish language. After the new voices have been introduced the quality of the speech produced is much better. I have a few questions: 1. What is the roadmap for Polish neural voices? I am asking here about - more male voices (and kids), - support for voice styles in Polish, 2. Are there any plans to support what amazon calls "specifying another language for specific words", that is, the ability to force t2s service to read e.g. english words using polish voice. 3. How about phonemes for Polish language ? 4. The Polish version of the voice we're using is a bit buggy. Some words get mispronounced, which requires us to re-write texts. Is there any fast escalation path that would allow us to contact you directly to solve the issue? 5. We're also experimenting with speech 2 text, however what we're really interested in is a scenario with speaker recognition. Any plans to implement that for Polish language?
