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This post was co-authored by @Qinying Liao<\/a>, @Anny Dow<\/a> , Yueying Liu, and Peter Pan.  <\/em><\/p>\n

Neural TTS enables fluid, natural-sounding speech that matches the patterns and intonation of human voices, helping developers bring their solutions to life.<\/p>\n

Today, we\u2019re building upon our Neural Text to Speech (Neural TTS) capabilities in Azure Cognitive Services with new voice styles. With the new styles\u2014newscast, customer service, and digital assistant\u2014developers can tailor the voice of their apps and services to fit their brand or unique scenario.<\/p>\n

Built on a powerful base model, our neural TTS voices are very natural, reliable, and expressive. Through transfer learning, the neural TTS model can learn different speaking styles from various speakers, enabling nuanced voices.<\/p>\n

In addition to our new voice styles optimized for specific scenarios, we are also releasing new emotion styles. These styles allow you to adjust voices to express different emotions to fit the context, like cheerfulness or empathy. Let\u2019s dive in.<\/p>\n

Introducing Newscast, Customer Service, and Digital Assistant styles<\/strong><\/p>\n

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With neural TTS voices in the newscast style, your users can enjoy listening to news or articles in a professional tone that reflects what you might hear on TV or radio newscasts.<\/p>\n

Hear Aria’s (English \u2013 Female) and Xiaoxiao\u2019s (Chinese \u2013 Female) voices in the newscast<\/em> style:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Check out the newscast style in the Bing mobile app. When you search news with the voice search feature, you can hear news briefs using Aria\u2019s newscast style voice.<\/p>\n

You can also check out Xiaoxiao\u2019s newscast style voice, which has been adopted in WeChat through the Microsoft Listening Docs app. In Microsoft Listening Docs, users can hear Xiaoxiao\u2019s voice read out multiple document types such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel, as well as images. Users can easily generate audio content for online trainings, news podcasts and more, and share with their social circles.<\/p>\n

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The customer service style features a friendly and engaging tone and is suitable for scenarios involving customer support, such as an individual checking into their flight, making a restaurant reservation, or reporting a claim.<\/p>\n

Hear Aria’s and Xiaoxiao\u2019s voices in the customer service<\/em> style:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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