Azure Cognitive Services—Neural Text to Speech has new voice styles
Microsoft announced a preview of this Azure AI Speech and Text to speech update in April 2020.
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- Microsoft id
azure-cognitive-services-adds-new-style-voices-to-neural-text-to-speech- Status
- In preview
- Products
- Azure AI Speech, Text to speech
- Update type
- Features
- Product categories
- AI + machine learning
- Preview
- April 2020
- Status pages
- Azure AI Speech status
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- Microsoft last modified
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- Azure Updates · open the original at Microsoft
Microsoft says
Neural Text to Speech now has new voice styles—newscast, customer service, and digital assistant.
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Related changes
Other changes for Azure AI Speech
- Speech-to-text REST API v3.0 will be retired by 31 March 2026.
- Cognitive Services Custom Commands feature is being retired on April 30, 2026
- OpenAI Whisper model in preview in Azure OpenAI service and Azure AI Speech · In preview
- General availability: Announcing the release of Swiss German dialect speech recognition support · Launched
- Upgrade to Text-to-Speech Neural Voice by 31 August 2024
- General availability: 6 new Locales added to Speech service to support speech transcription · Launched
- Azure Speech Services REST API v3.0 is now available · Launched
- Speech service region expansion to ten additional regions · Launched
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