{"id":6753,"date":"2024-03-31T08:24:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T00:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=6753"},"modified":"2024-03-31T08:24:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T00:24:44","slug":"%e5%be%ae%e8%bd%af-azure-%e6%96%b0%e5%a2%9e-9-%e6%ac%be%e9%80%bc%e7%9c%9f-ai-%e8%af%ad%e9%9f%b3%ef%bc%8c%e5%8c%85%e6%8b%ac%e7%be%8e%e5%bc%8f%e8%8b%b1%e8%af%ad%e3%80%81%e4%b8%ad%e6%96%87%e7%ad%89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/6753.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Azure adds 9 new realistic AI voices, including American English, Chinese, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-vmark=\"d2b2\">September 2023<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e5%be%ae%e8%bd%af\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [Microsoft]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Microsoft<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/azure\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [Azure]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Azure<\/a> The team announced the launch of a range of photorealistic for commercial customers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ai%e8%af%ad%e9%9f%b3\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [AI Voice]]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI Voice<\/a>. This week Microsoft said nine more authentic AI voices are now generally available to those users.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"d766\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6754\" title=\"12973ea6-5d8c-4980-b423-960f122fd784\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12973ea6-5d8c-4980-b423-960f122fd784.png\" alt=\"12973ea6-5d8c-4980-b423-960f122fd784\" width=\"999\" height=\"560\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"44af\">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.\"<\/p>\n<h3 data-vmark=\"1c42\">These nine new voices are now live in all Azure regions, including:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"list-paddingleft-2\">\n<li>\n<p data-vmark=\"fd04\">American English - en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural: bright, infectious female voice with beautiful timbre.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-vmark=\"70ba\">American English -\u00a0<span class=\"link-text-start-with-http\">en-US-AndrewMultilingualNeural<\/span>: A warm, infectious male voice that feels approachable.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-vmark=\"d5d8\">American English -\u00a0<span class=\"link-text-start-with-http\">en-US-EmmaMultilingualNeural<\/span>: A friendly, light, pleasant female voice for educational and explanatory scenarios.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-vmark=\"8f9b\">American English -\u00a0<span class=\"link-text-start-with-http\">en-US-BrianMultilingualNeural<\/span>: A young, cheerful, versatile voice that is perfect for a wide variety of environments.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-vmark=\"8b61\">German -\u00a0<span class=\"link-text-start-with-http\">De-DE-FlorianMultilingualNeural<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-vmark=\"b9fe\">German -\u00a0<span class=\"link-text-start-with-http\">De-DE-SeraphinaMultilingualNeural<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-vmark=\"f59b\">French -\u00a0<span class=\"link-text-start-with-http\">Fr-FR-RemyMultilingualNeural<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-vmark=\"bcf5\">French -\u00a0<span class=\"link-text-start-with-http\">Fr-FR-VivienneMultilingualNeural<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-vmark=\"35a1\">Chinese -\u00a0<span class=\"link-text-start-with-http\">zh-CN-XiaoxiaoMultiligualNeural<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-vmark=\"02dc\">Additionally, Microsoft announced that \"American English - RyanMultilingual\" voice is now available in all Azure regions. At the same time, the company merged \"American English - JennyMultilingual\" into \"American English - JennyMultilingualV2\" voice and made it available for all regions open for use in all regions.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"6c24\">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\".<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"e4ac\">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.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2023, the Microsoft Azure team announced a range of realistic AI voices for business customers. This week Microsoft said that nine more realistic AI voices are now generally available for 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 in the entertainment and gaming space. 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.\" The nine new voices are now live in all Azure regions and include: American English - en-US-A<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[831,1979,280],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-6753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-azure","tag-280"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6753"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=6753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}