Getting this error while running the Text-to-speech Avatar service by azure

Question

Unable to call the API for text to speech with this error
ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='none.customvoice.api.speech.microsoft.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/texttospeech/3.1-preview1/batchsynthesis/talkingavatar (Caused by NameResolutionError("<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7c42b2a75750>: Failed to resolve 'none.customvoice.api.speech.microsoft.com' ([Errno -2] Name or service not known)"))

Answer 1

@Nishigandha Lad Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, Thank you for posting your query here!
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I understand that you are encountering the below error while calling the API for text to speech with the following error:

ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='none.customvoice.api.speech.microsoft.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/texttospeech/3.1-preview1/batchsynthesis/talkingavatar (Caused by NameResolutionError("<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7c42b2a75750>: Failed to resolve 'none.customvoice.api.speech.microsoft.com' ([Errno -2] Name or service not known)"))  

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• Firstly, your url host='none.customvoice.api.speech.microsoft.com' doesn't seem to be correct. Please ensure that you are using the correct url.

The syntax should be:
"https://YourSpeechRegion.customvoice.api.speech.microsoft.com/api/texttospeech/3.1-preview1/batchsynthesis/talkingavatar"
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The text to speech avatar feature is only available in the following service regions: WestUS2, WestEurope, and SoutheastAsia. More info here and here.

• You can also try testing the Text to Speech avatar (Preview) feature using the ***speech studio portal***as shown below:
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• If you want to perform this test from Python sample code, you can leverage this sample.
• Also ensure that you don't have any proxy / firewall within your corporate network which blocks access to the Speech API endpoint.
• Also ensure that the speech endpoint api gets resolved correctly from your network DNS.

Hope this helps. If you have any follow-up questions, please let me know. I would be happy to help.

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