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

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Published

Nov 17, 2020

Status

In preview

Timeline

  • November 2020
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Product

Azure AI Services
Text to speech

Tag

Features

Category

AI + machine learning
Mobile

Description

Azure Neural Text to Speech (TTS) has extended its global support, adding five new languages: Maltese, Lithuanian, Estonian, Irish and Latvian, in public preview. With these updates, Azure TTS service now supports 54 languages/locales with 73 neural voices and 77 standard voices available.

Together with the preview of these five new languages, we are also announcing that the Neural TTS Container is now generally available. With Neural TTS Container, developers can run speech synthesis with the most natural digital voices in their own environment for specific security and data governance requirements. Learn more about Container support in Cognitive Services and visit the Frequently Asked Questions on Azure Cognitive Services Containers.

Read the Text to Speech blog.