Azure Neural TTS Web Player instance and plugin for React

Henry Chan 0

Hello!

After reading the post Azure Neural TTS Web Player: let your website speak for itself,I recently sent an email to ttsplayer@microsoft.com requesting for an Azure Neural TTS Web Player for my website.

In the post, the author directed readers to:

Step 1: Register

Create speech resource in Azure portal (check details).

Select your voices in Voice Gallery

Create an TTS player instance by contacting [ttsplayer@microsoft.com], please provide below:

The region and ID of your speech resource.

The link to your website.

It has been 2-3 working days now and no response has been received yet. May I know:

Is Azure still providing support for creating Nerual TTS Web Players instance?

I am actually interested in implementing the plugin in Microsoft Technology Community Blog for a React (specifically Docusauras) website and I wonder why the only plugin available is for Wordpress but not React, even if React is argubaly currently the most popular frontend framework.

P.S. It will also be helpful if web visitors can select different voices from the Voice Gallery, and one single voice can read all languages instead of only English and its native language.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or insight. Thank you!

-Henry

romungi-MSFT 42,286 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-04-04T08:07:08.5333333+00:00

@Henry Chan With respect to your registration, let me check internally if the concerned team can reply back to you.

With respect to a single voice with the capability of reading all languages, we have multi neural voices supported in the list of voices. Ex: en-US-JennyMultilingualNeural

Do you think this will help?
Henry Chan 0 Reputation points

2024-04-06T08:06:29.64+00:00

Hello , thank you for your support. While I am still waiting for a response for my registration, it's helpful to know that Azure offers Multilingual voices.

Yet, the demand for a openly available plugin for React remains. It will save a lot of time for your team as well if a plugin is openly available.

More specifically, people used the T2S feature at Azure AI services blog like above (where a player only appears on click) and naturally they desire one with nearly same CSS for themselves.

Kudos to Azure for offering voices and dialects which are not available at AWS!