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Microsoft brings 9 more AI voices for Azure AI service users in all regions

Also, multiple AI voices are updated and are available in preview in specific regions

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Published onMarch 31, 2024

published onMarch 31, 2024

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Microsoft has recently updatedAzure AI serviceswith nine additional AI voices for better human-bot conversations which are generally available now. Back in September 2023, Microsoft introduced several realistic voices to Azure AI services for all the business customers

In arecent blog post, Microsoft mentioned the newly added AI voices in Azure are useful for multiple tasks. They are useful for gaming, e-learning, entertainment, voice assistant, chatbots, and more.

Here’s the list of nine AI voices made available in all regions:

Talking about the newly added realistic-sounding voices in Azure AI services, Microsoft added:

This expansion broadens our capacity to articulate content across 91 languages and their variants. This advancement underscores our steadfast commitment to surmounting language barriers and promoting a more inclusive and accessible global communication landscape.

All the AI voices have distinctive tones and styles and are suitable for various applications. For example, Microsoft mentionsen-US-EmmaMultilingualNeuralvoice is a friendly, light-hearted, and pleasant female voice that works well for e-learning and more. Likewise, theen-US-AndrewMultilingualNeuralvoice has a warm tone with an engaging male voice that sounds like someone you want to know.

Additionally, Microsoft mentioned other voices previously added to Azure services likeen-US-RyanMultilingualanden-US-JennyMultilingualV2(merged withen-US-Jenny Multilingual) are now generally available in all regions.

Let’s not forget that the updated version ofen-IN-NeerjaNeuralandhi-IN-SwaraNeuralvoices with three different styles in Southeast Asia, West Europe, and East US are available in preview.

Microsoft also mentioned that new female voices likeen-IN-KavyaNeural, en-IN-AnanyaNeural, en-IN-AashiNeural, hi-IN-KavyaNeural, hi-IN-AnanyaNeuralare available in preview in Central India.

While it is true that Microsoft is adding many realistic-sounding AI voices in Azure, it’s worth noting that the service also offers over 400 Text-to-Speech voices covering 140 languages and locales.

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Coming from a solid background in PC building and software development, he’s a Windows 11 Privacy & Security expert.