Multilingual voice mispronounces Ukrainian as Russian

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Multilingual voice mispronounces Ukrainian as Russian

Serhii Kapin 0

How can I resolve the issue of multilingual voices pronouncing Ukrainian as Russian when using Text to Speech with the Microsoft.CognitiveServices.Speech package in C#?

Explicitly specifying the language in the code through the SpeechSynthesisLanguage config parameter does not work. Specifying purely Ukrainian voices works fine (of cource it would). If I try multilingual voices directly in Speech Studio everything works fine there.

I'm using version 1.37.0 of the Microsoft.CognitiveServices.Speech package.

navba-MSFT 27,625 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2024-05-20T06:15:50.4633333+00:00
@Serhii Kapin Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, Thank you for posting your query here!

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I see that you are already using most recent version of the **Microsoft.CognitiveServices.Speech** package.

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Action Plan:

Could you please update your code to try with SSML instead and check if that helps?

Please check with en-US-AndrewMultilingualNeural voice and check ?

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You can try with the below SSML script which has both the uk-UA and ru-RU locale added:

<speak xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis" xmlns:mstts="http://www.w3.org/2001/mstts" xmlns:emo="http://www.w3.org/2009/10/emotionml" version="1.0" xml:lang="en-US"> <voice name='en-US-AndrewMultilingualNeural'> <lang xml:lang='uk-UA'>Це прекрасний день.</lang> <lang xml:lang='ru-RU'>Это прекрасный день.</lang> </voice> </speak>

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Awaiting your reply.
navba-MSFT 27,625 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2024-05-22T05:01:42.1233333+00:00

@Serhii Kapin Just following up to check if my suggestion helped. Please let me know if you have any further queries. I would be happy to help.