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
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Platforms Supported
Cloud
Training
Documentation
Support
Phone Support
Online
Azure Text to Speech Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Azure Text to Speech work with?
Azure Text to Speech works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does Azure Text to Speech support in their product?
Azure Text to Speech supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does Azure Text to Speech offer?
Azure Text to Speech offers support via phone support and online.
Q: What other applications or services does Azure Text to Speech integrate with?
Azure Text to Speech integrates with: Azure AI Services, Azure AI Content Safety, Expertflow Contact Center, Smart IVR, Lont, Medeo, PubNub, voximplant, and Wordspilot.
Q: What type of training does Azure Text to Speech provide?
Azure Text to Speech provides training in the form of documentation.
Q: Does Azure Text to Speech offer a free trial?
Yes, Azure Text to Speech offers a free trial.
Azure Text to Speech Product Features
Text to Speech
API
Supported
Adjust Speaking Rate / Pitch
Supported
Audio Optimization
Supported
Custom Lexicons
Supported
Different Voice Choices
Supported
Multi-Language Support
Supported
Synchronize Speech
Supported
