Microsoft Azure Stack is an extension of Azure—bringing the agility and innovation of cloud computing to your on-premises environment and enabling the only hybrid cloud that allows you to build and deploy hybrid applications anywhere. We bring together the best of the edge and cloud to deliver Azure services anywhere in your environment. Speak human, not robot Build apps and services that speak to users naturally, improving accessibility and usability. Convert text to audio in near real time, play it back, and save it as a file for later use.
We are building new synthetic voices for Text-to-Speech (TTS) every day, and we can find or build the right one for any application. This demo is made available. Text-to-speech (TTS) is the ability of your computer to play back written text as spoken words. Depending upon your configuration and installed TTS engines, you can hear most text that appears on your screen in Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote.
Text to Speech is available in both Neural and Standard versions. Applying the latest in digital speech innovation, the Neural Text to Speech capability makes the voices of your apps nearly indistinguishable from recordings of people. The natural inflection and clear articulation significantly reduce listening fatigue when interacting with AI systems. Use Neural Text to Speech to make interactions with chatbots and virtual assistants more natural and engaging, to convert digital text such as e-books into audiobooks, and to enhance in-car navigation systems.
Microsoft Sam saying, 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog 1,234,567,890 times.' , followed by a demonstration of a that occurs when the words soi/soy are entered (soi cannot be uppercase in Windows XP or it will say the letters) Problems playing this file? The Microsoft text-to-speech voices are provided for use with applications that use the (SAPI) or the Microsoft Speech Server Platform.
There are client, server, and mobile versions of Microsoft text-to-speech voices. Client voices are shipped with Windows operating systems; server voices are available for download for use with server applications such as Speech Server, Lync etc. For both Windows client and server platforms, and mobile voices are often shipped with more recent versions of.
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Voices Windows 2000 and XP Microsoft Sam is the default text-to-speech male voice in Microsoft. It is used by, the program built into the operating system. Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary are optional male and female voices respectively, available for download from the Microsoft website. Michael and Michelle are also optional male and female voices licensed by Microsoft from, and available through. There are both SAPI 4 and SAPI 5 versions of these text-to-speech voices. SAPI 4 voices are only available on Windows 2000 and later Windows NT-based operating systems.
While SAPI 5 versions of Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary are downloadable only as a, the installable versions may be installed on end users' systems by speech applications such as Microsoft Reader. SAPI 4 redistributable versions are downloadable for, although no longer from the Microsoft website. Microsoft Sam, Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary can be used on Windows Vista and later with a third-party program (like Speakonia and TTSReader) installed on the machine that supports these operating systems; however, the speech patterns differ from the versions of these voices. In addition, LH Michael and LH Michelle can work on and later if Speakonia and the SAPI 4 version of the voices in British English is downloaded. Windows Vista and 7 Beginning with and, Microsoft Anna is the default English voice. It is a SAPI5-only female voice and is designed to sound more natural than Microsoft Sam.
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2006 and later install the Microsoft Anna voice on Windows XP systems for the voice-prompt direction feature. There is no male voice shipping with Windows Vista and Windows 7. A female voice called Microsoft Lili that replaces the earlier male SAPI5 voice 'Microsoft Simplified Chinese' is available in Chinese versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. It can also be obtained in non-Chinese versions of Windows 7 or Vista by installing the. In 2010, Microsoft released the newer Speech Platform compatible voices for Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech for use with client and server applications. These voices are available in 26 languages and can be installed on Windows client and server operating systems. Speech Platform voices unlike SAPI 5 voices, are female-only, no male voices are released publicly yet.
Windows 8 and 8.1 In, there are three new client (desktop) voices - Microsoft David (US male), Hazel (UK female) and Zira (US female) which sound more natural than the now-eliminated Microsoft Anna. The server versions of these voices are available via above mentioned Speech Platform for operating systems earlier than Windows 8. Unlike Windows 7 or Vista, one cannot use any third-party program for Microsoft Anna because there is no Anna Voice API for download. Other voices are available for specific language versions of either.
Windows 10 and later In, Microsoft Hazel was removed from the US English Language Pack and the Microsoft voices for Mobile (Phone/tablet) are available (Microsoft Mark and Microsoft Zira). These are the same voices found on,. Also with these voices language packs are also available for a variety of voices similar to that of. None of these voices match the text-to-speech voice which can be found on,. In an attempt to unify its software with, all of Microsoft's current platforms use the same text-to-speech voices except for Microsoft David and a few others. Mobile Every mobile voice package has the combination of male/female, while most of the desktop voice packages have only female voices.
All mobile voices have been made universal and any user who downloads the language pack of that choice will have one extra male and female voice per that package. A hidden text-to-speech voice in Windows 10 called Microsoft Eva Mobile is present within the system. Users can download a pre-packaged registry file from the windowsreport.com website. Microsoft Eva is believed to be the early voice for until replaced her with the voice of in most areas. These voices are updated with Windows to sound more natural than in the original version as seen in the.
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