Azure updates

Cognitive Services Speech adds new Neural TTS voices and general availability of Neural TTS in containers

Speech service adds 10 new neural Text to Speech (TTS) voices and announces general availability of Neural TTS in containers.

• Azure AI services
• Text to speech
• Features

Azure Cognitive Services—Neural Text to Speech has new voice styles

Neural Text to Speech now has new voice styles—newscast, customer service, and digital assistant. Tailor the voice of your apps and services to fit your unique scenario using these new styles, and further customize your voice to express different emotions to fit the context, like cheerfulness or empathy.

• Text to speech
• Azure AI Speech
• Features

Azure Cognitive Services—Brazilian Portuguese added to neural Text to Speech

Target availability: Q1 2020

Francisca, our new Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR) voice, has been added to neural Text to Speech. Francisca features the same human-like natural prosody of the other neural Text to Speech voices on Azure.

• Text to speech
• Azure AI Speech
• Features

Cognitive Services Speech Services neural text-to-speech capability is in preview

Cognitive Services Speech Services now offers a neural text-to-speech capability in preview. Use this capability to deploy voices to apps that are nearly indistinguishable from the human voice.

• Azure AI services
• Text to speech
• Services