Thanks to the AI features in Microsoft's cloud, text-to-speech technology can render more realistic results than ever. Imagine being able to have any text read to you like a book. No, not by your mama ...

Azure Cognitive Services is letting developers create natural-sounding speech even without a lot of expertise in machine learning. Here's how. Traditionally, when a computer has attempted to convert ...

During the Microsoft Ignite 2023 event, the company launched its Azure AI Speech text-to-speech avatar creator. This tool is currently available for public preview and its main function is to create ...

A recent tech demo uses Azure Custom Neural Voice to imitate a presenter's actual voice. You can compare the presenter and the AI-generated voice within the video. The demo explains how to configure ...

Microsoft has upgraded Azure AI Speech so that users can rapidly generate a voice replica with just a few seconds of sampled speech.… The personal voice feature for AI Speech became generally ...

Microsoft has announced the general availability of gpt-realtime, its latest speech-to-speech (S2S) model, on Azure AI ...

Microsoft is opening up limited access to a text-to-speech AI called Custom Neural Voice, which allows developers to create custom synthetic voices. The tech is part of an Azure AI service called ...

One of the more unexpected products to launch out of the Microsoft Ignite 2023 event is a tool that can create a photorealistic avatar of a person and animate that avatar saying things that the person ...

Microsoft showed off a combination of holoportation and translation at Microsoft Inspire. The demo used several Azure services to translate English to Japanese sound as if it was from the original ...