Audience
Businesses looking for a speech service to convert text to lifelike speech
About Azure Text to Speech
Build apps and services that speak naturally. Differentiate your brand with a customized, realistic voice generator, and access voices with different speaking styles and emotional tones to fit your use case—from text readers and talkers to customer support chatbots. Enable fluid, natural-sounding text to speech that matches the intonation and emotion of human voices. Tune voice output for your scenarios by easily adjusting rate, pitch, pronunciation, pauses, and more. Engage global audiences by using 400 neural voices across 140 languages and variants. Bring your scenarios like text readers and voice-enabled assistants to life with highly expressive and human-like voices. Neural Text to Speech supports several speaking styles including newscast, customer service, shouting, whispering, and emotions like cheerful and sad.
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Microsoft
Founded: 1975
United States
azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/text-to-speech/
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Azure Text to Speech Frequently Asked Questions
Azure Text to Speech Product Features
Text to Speech
API
Adjust Speaking Rate / Pitch
Audio Optimization
Custom Lexicons
Different Voice Choices
Multi-Language Support
Synchronize Speech
