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 ...

Thanks to the AI features in Microsoft's cloud, text-to-speech technology can render more realistic results than ever.

Azure Cognitive Services – Azure Speech-to-Text (STT) and Azure Translator – are now available in the Serbian language, with new algorithms that enable the optimization of language and speech models ...

Not only have Microsoft's Bot Framework and Service been updated, but new AI functionality and language capabilities have been introduced for apps that leverage Azure Cognitive Services as well.

Other capabilities that have been introduced to Azure Cognitive Services in general include speaker diarization for Transcribe in Word, which uses the Speech to Text service, and more.

With this update, the Cognitive Services Speech Service, the unified Azure API for speech-to-text, text-to-speech and translation, is coming to 27 new locales, and the company promises a 20% ...

Microsoft today announced the launch of new neural text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities in Azure Cognitive Services, its suite of AI-imbued APIs and SDKs that enable developers to tailor the voice of ...

At Ignite 2019, Microsoft announced a series of new updates to Azure Cognitive Services, including new capabilities in Cognitive Search.

Azure Custom Neural Voice is a text-to-speech feature in Azure Cognitive Service. It lets organizations create a synthetic voice, such as the Flo virtual chatbot for the insurance company Progressive.

Microsoft is adding a new healthcare-focused text analytics interface to its family of AI programming interfaces, and it's making generally available Custom Commands and Form Recognizer APIs, as well.

Azure Speech Services are pushing the boundaries of what AI voices can sound like in apps and games, with some interesting possibilities for future Xbox and PC games.

One key technology, Microsoft’s Azure Cognitive Services, offers a set of managed machine learning services with pretrained models and REST API endpoints.