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ArsmanAhmad
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Feb 03, 2020

Microsoft Azure TTS Cognitive Service Voice Limit Issue

I am very new to learn cognitive services of Text-to-Speech (TTS) of Microsoft Azure. I successfully able to convert the given text into an audio file by using TTS services of Azure.It works fine when I'm having a single voice element in my SSML XML document. The example of working SSML is;
<speak version="1.0" xml:lang="en-US">
  <voice xml:lang="en-US" xml:gender="Male" name="en-US-Jessa24kRUS"> 
       Hello, this is my sample text to convert into audio? 
  </voice>
</speak>

But, when I'm having multiple voice tags(on gender base), then it causes an error. The SSML of it is:

<speak version="1.0" xml:lang="en-US">
  <voice xml:lang="en-US" xml:gender="Male" name="en-US-Guy24kRUS"> What’s your name? </voice>
  <voice xml:lang="en-US" xml:gender="Female" name="en-US-Jessa24kRUS"> My name is Cindy Smith. Do you know John Silver?</voice>
  <voice xml:lang="en-US" xml:gender="Male" name="en-US-Guy24kRUS"> John and I are old friends. </voice>
  <voice xml:lang="en-US" xml:gender="Female" name="en-US-Jessa24kRUS"> John just joined our company as a salesperson. </voice>
  <voice xml:lang="en-US" xml:gender="Male" name="en-US-Guy24kRUS"> That’s good news. John has been a salesperson for chemical products for many years. </voice>
  <voice xml:lang="en-US" xml:gender="Female" name="en-US-Jessa24kRUS"> I head he really likes his new job.</voice>
</speak>

And the error is:

Response status code does not indicate success: 400 (SSML must contain a maximum of 5 voice elements. Actual 6.).

It'll be a great help for me if someone explain that why its limiting me to five voice tags, while there's no limitation mentioned in documentation.

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