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Re: 5/20: Azure Cognitive Services - Speech AMA announcement!
EricStarker To add- I invite you all to visit our revamped Speech services page to learn more about how you can use speech for a variety of scenarios. We also provide how-to blogs as well in case you want to try to build one of these scenarios: Speech-to-Text for speech transcription Text-to-Speech for read-aloud, accessible scenarios Speech Translation to transcribe & translate speech live Speaker recognition to recognize who the speaker is in a conversation Custom commands and Custom Keyword to enable voice commands to IoT Devices, apps, and voice assistantsRe: OCR with Form Recognizer
Konstantin Kazantsev just wanted to follow up. We reached out to the Form Recognizer team and here are the answers to your question: Form Recognizer is available for the business user as a No Code Form Processing, Invoice Processing, Receipt Processing apps as part of Power Automate. See more details here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ai-builder/overview Form Recognizer has an API and SDK release, when upgrading we bump the API release and update the SDK so it is up to the customer to decide when to take the new release. Usually efforts are minimum just change the API path from 2.0 to 2.1, to consume new features customers might need to integrate the new features into their service but for an upgrade to use the latest release and accuracy improvements just and API path update is needed to consume the latest release. Hope this helps!!Re: Industry Specific Terminology
Nathan Hess thanks great feedback- we can be sure to include in release notes but also in Azure Updates. To answer the specific question- there is currently a plan for models trained specifically for Healthcare that would be available via custom speech, with the ability to further train your models, so please do stay tuned over the next few months.Re: Industry Specific Terminology
Nathan Hess Hi Nathan, thanks for the question! Please stay tuned as there are plans for industry-specific support. If you have an active use case, we can try our best to connect you to the right team. Feel free to add me on LinkedIn or you can fill out the survey below, and there is an option to provide preferred contact method for more info: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbRx5-v_jX54tFo-eNTe-69oBUMDU3SDlVUEFCNkQyNjNXM0tOS0NQNkM2VS4uRe: Free subscription
bootsbandoja Hi There! Is your question on whether or there is a free tier/ trial tier for Speech services? If you create a Free Azure account here, you will get some Azure credits, and additionally, there are Free tiers to Speech (Pricing page here) so you can try these capabilities with little to no cost. you can also demo these on the Speech product pages. For example Text to Speech, allows you to hear all the TTS voices; Speech to text allows you to test the accuracy. Speech studio will allow you to also try some of the capabilities too. If all else fails you can showcase speech transcription in Teams or Powerpoint (and even show case live transcription & translation) Or in Edge using Read-aloud on a website. Does that help?Re: Welcome to the Azure Cognitive Services - Speech AMA!
Hi Everyone! My name is Will Mendoza I work on the marketing team for Azure AI - I focus on Cognitive Services like Speech and am excited to meet you. If you're new to Azure AI and Cognitive Services, we recently built a resources page to help you get started with video walkthroughs and 30-day learning guide (with path to get an Azure certification!) Also, I've commented elsewhere, but if you're curious, there is a blog we recently published that talks about text to speech and Custom Neural Voice, and also edwardun participated in the AI show last friday. Happy to share more resources, just let me know!Re: 2/10/21 - Announcing an Azure Cognitive Services – Speech AMA!
Additional resources to familiarize yourself with Text to Speech & CNV: Text to Speech For folks who are curious, in addition to the AI Show segment, you can also visit the Text-to-Speech product page and try the demo, which contains 200+ pre-built TTS voices - Check to see voices available in your preferred languages! Custom Neural Voice (now in GA) Last week, we announced that in addition to these pre-built TTS voices, you can build a custom neural voice (generally available- however you must apply to use this capability.) To highlight one such example, below is an audio sample of the 'Flo' virtual chatbot from Progressive. Custom Neural Voice Sample of 'Flo' from Progressive:Introducing two new AI resources pages for devs and data scientists
Today, we launched new practitioner focused pages to help developers interested in using Cognitive Services and Cognitive Search in their apps, as well as to help data scientists looking to build machine learning models in Azure. We've brought together some videos from practitioners, video guides, 30-day learning journey paths and more! Anand_Raman published a blog on it today with more details. Links to the pages are below: Artificial Intelligence for Developers | Microsoft Azure Machine Learning for Data Scientists | Microsoft Azure Download the 30-day learning journey A guide that contains a curated set of training modules to make you an expert in Azure AI! You can download the ML Learning Journey and the AI Developer Learning Journey Hear from developers who have used Azure AI Essentials video series: Walkthrough of various AI & ML scenarios Hear from the product team members who have built these capabilities NEW: Azure AI Hackathon Competition Also, we just kicked off an Azure AI Hackathon - with prizes for winners and first 50 submissions! Azure AI Hackathon: Build AI-powered apps with pre-trained models or create your own machine learning models - Devpost
