How do i make my Azure Text to speech voice use a specific style in python

Question

speech_config.speech_synthesis_voice_name = "en-US-DavisNeural"

text = "Hi, this is Davis"

# use the default speaker as audio output.

result = speech_synthesizer.speak_text_async(text).get()

Theres my code so far. how can i make the voice use a different style? using SSML wont work to my knowledge because what the voice will be saying is changing constantly and being said in real time.

Answer 1

Hello @Legate Lanius , Thanks for using Microsoft Q&A Platform.

Generally, to change the voice style in Azure Text to Speech, you can set the speech_synthesis_voice_name to the name of the voice you want to use as you have already set the speech_synthesis_voice_name property to "en-US-DavisNeural". The list of available voices can be found in the documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/language-support?tabs=tts

To know more information on how the voice that speaks is determined in order of priority is explained here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/how-to-speech-synthesis?tabs=browserjs%2Cterminal&pivots=programming-language-python#select-synthesis-language-and-voice

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