Text to speech service does not support el-GR-AthinaNeural.

Question

Hello, i am trying to use text to speech service through PowerShell and although i can succesffully convert my greek text to speech with male voice, when i try the same conversion with the female voice (AthinaNeural) i get the below error:

CANCELED: Reason=Error
CANCELED: ErrorCode=ConnectionFailure
CANCELED: ErrorDetails=Connection was closed by the remote host. Error code: 1007. Error details: Unsupported voice el-GR-AthinaNeural. USP state: 3. Received audio size: 0bytes.
CANCELED: Did you update the subscription info? 

Please find below the relative code:

.\spx synthesize --file FILE.ssml --speakers

and the text included in the ssml file:

<speak version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis" xml:lang="el-GR">
 <voice name="el-GR-AthinaNeural">
 some greek words that you might dont understad :)
 </voice>
</speak>

Please help!
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Yea, so currently, neural voices are not supported in northeurope but standard voices are supported. If you try the standard voice 'name="el-GR-Stefanos" and lang="el-GR" it should work as expected. If you want to use neural voices, then I suggest creating a new speech resource in one of the supported regions, otherwise, feel free to use one of the standard voices for northeurope region. Hope this helps.