Neural Text to Speech expands to new languages

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Published

Jul 8, 2020

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • July 2020
    General Availability

Product

Azure AI Services

Tag

Features

Category

AI + machine learning
Mobile

Description

Neural Text to Speech is expanding language support, with 15 new natural-sounding voices that feature state-of-the-art neural speech synthesis models:

  • Salma in Arabic (Egypt)
  • Zariyah in Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
  • Alba in Catalan (Spain)
  • Christel in Danish (Denmark)
  • Neerja in English (India)
  • Swara in Hindi (India)
  • Colette in Dutch (Netherland)
  • Zofia in Polish (Poland)
  • Fernanda in Portuguese (Portugal)
  • Dariya in Russian (Russia)
  • Hillevi in Swedish (Sweden)
  • Achara in Thai (Thailand)
  • HiuGaai in Chinese (Cantonese, Traditional)
  • HsiaoYu in Chinese (Taiwanese Mandarin)

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