September 2023Microsoft Azure The team announced the launch of a range of photorealistic for commercial customers AI Voice. This week Microsoft said nine more authentic AI voices are now generally available to those users.
According to a Microsoft blog post, these new voices can be used for a variety of jobs and tasks, such as business chatbots, voice assistants, e-learning, and entertainment and gaming domains. Microsoft said, "This expansion extends our ability to express content in 91 languages and their variants. This progress underscores our strong commitment to overcoming language barriers and promoting a more inclusive and accessible global communications environment."
These nine new voices are now live in all Azure regions, including:
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American English - en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural: Bright, powerful female voice with beautiful timbre.
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American English - en-US-AndrewMultilingualNeural: A warm, infectious male voice that feels approachable.
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American English - en-US-EmmaMultilingualNeural: A friendly, light, pleasant female voice for educational and explanatory scenarios.
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American English - en-US-BrianMultilingualNeural: A young, cheerful, versatile voice that is perfect for a wide variety of environments.
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German - De-DE-FlorianMultilingualNeural
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German - De-DE-SeraphinaMultilingualNeural
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French - Fr-FR-RemyMultilingualNeural
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French - Fr-FR-VivienneMultilingualNeural
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Chinese - zh-CN-XiaoxiaoMultiligualNeural
In addition, Microsoft announced that the "American English - RyanMultilingual" voice is now available in all Azure regions. At the same time, the company has merged "American English - JennyMultilingual" into "American English - JennyMultilingualV2" voice and made it available for all regions.
In addition to the above officially released voices, Microsoft has a number of voices in the public preview stage, such as "Neela (en-IN-NeerjaNeural)" and "Swara (hi-IN-SwaraNeural)" in Hindi ", which have added three new styles in Eastern America, Western Europe and Southeast Asia. Meanwhile, female voice previews have been added in Central India, including "Kavya (en-IN-KavyaNeural)", "Ananya (en-IN-AnanyaNeural)" in Hindi and "en-IN-AashiNeural", and in Hindi "hi-IN-KavyaNeural" and "hi-IN-AnanyaNeural". AnanyaNeural".
In addition to an ever-expanding library of immersive AI speech, Microsoft Azure offers more than 400 neural network text-to-speech capabilities in more than 140 languages.
