Microsoft Introduces Hindi, Indian English to Neural Text-to- Speech Service

Microsoft India has announced the addition of English (India) and Hindi to its Neural Text to Speech (Neural TTS) service language set. The two Indian languages are among the 15 new dialects added to the service enabled with state-of-the-art AI audio quality.

Neural TTS is part of the Azure Cognitive Services and converts textual content to lifelike speech for a extra pure interface.

The service additionally gives customizable voices, fine-tuned auto management, and versatile deployment from cloud to edge, it mentioned.

Sundar Srinivasan, General Manager, Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt Ltd, mentioned, “Our text-to-speech companies have performed a key function in democratizing data attain and empowering folks and organizations.”

“Through the inclusion of English (India) and Hindi in Neural TTS, we’re demonstrating our continued dedication to refining speech and voice-based companies for private and enterprise use in India.”

With a natural-sounding speech that matches the stress patterns and intonation of human voices, Neural TTS considerably reduces listening fatigue when customers are interacting with AI methods.

It makes the service superb for growing interfaces to speak with the purchasers, Microsoft mentioned.

Microsoft’s Neural TTS can be utilized to make interactions with chatbots and digital assistants extra pure and fascinating.

It can be getting used to transform digital texts equivalent to e-books into audiobooks and being deployed for in-car navigation methods.

The service permits human-like pure and clear articulation and makes use of deep neural networks to beat the bounds of conventional text-to-speech methods in matching the patterns of stress and pitch in spoken language.

Neural TTS presents these advantages whereas sustaining complete privateness and enterprise-grade safety by way of information encryption.

The different new languages launched are Arabic (Egypt and Saudi Arabia), Danish, Finnish, Catalan, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Thai, Swedish, and Chinese (Cantonese Traditional and Taiwanese Mandarin).

Overall, Microsoft TTS helps 110 voices and over 45 languages and variants, the IT agency mentioned. PTI