Speech Studio Bug report: Editing intonations has no effect for some Languages/Voices

Raoul W 11

Hi,

Please see the screenshot below:

That works fine.

Which creates the following SSML:

<!--ID=B7267351-473F-409D-9765-754A8EBCDE05;Version=1|{"VoiceNameToIdMapItems":[{"Id":"c2936675-a301-488e-b13c-3ffec5a2edbe","Name":"Microsoft Server Speech Text to Speech Voice (nl-NL, MaartenNeural)","VoiceType":"StandardVoice"}]}-->  
<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="nl-NL"><voice name="Microsoft Server Speech Text to Speech Voice (nl-NL, MaartenNeural)">Wat kost die <prosody contour="(70%, -98%) (86%, +99%) (99%, +96%)">auto</prosody>?</voice></speak>

Which works fine in the contour editor but does not work when I go back to the main editor, it loses the contour settings.

YutongTie-MSFT 48,586 Reputation points

2021-01-14T18:01:03.157+00:00

Thanks a lot for pointing out this. Is there any other particular language not works well?

Regards,
Yutong
Raoul W 11 Reputation points

2021-01-16T17:39:50.94+00:00
I've only seen this happen in Dutch, English seems to work.

But trying to make some real life intonations will show several bugs:

It's possible to drag the curve before the previous point. For example I have 5 points in my curve, I can move point 3 to a position BEFORE point 2 which enables you to draw funny pictures but does not make much sense:

Adding a longer sentence will make the text dissapear, it would be good to have the option to make the window bigger.

As to the other poster there seems to be some link between Pitch and Intonation where messages are shown at Intonation 'Please select the previous words'. Pressing the eraser tool on those words have no effect

After that the Please select... message seems to be stuck and could only way get out of it is to create a whole new text.
Raoul W 11 Reputation points

2021-01-16T17:39:59.863+00:00
Preview button is disabled when no curve exist, does not make much sense.

UI has a limitation for number of points on curve but API does not.

@YutongTie-5848 Please consider out application for gated custom neural voice preview.

Thanks!
Joe 0 Reputation points

2023-06-07T08:26:57.4766667+00:00

I have the same problem in English (USA). The preview "shows" the intonation, and when I mark the concerning section and listen to it, it works as well. Yet when listening to the complete sentence the intonation falls back into the original.

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Serhat AHÇI 21 Reputation points

2021-01-16T11:58:35.04+00:00

Please correct this problem ASAP. INTONATION NOT WORKING WITH RATE SPEED SETTING.
I am really enjoying the audio content creation so far, but I got to ask a question as there seems to be a problem within the audio content creation page.
I am especially using neural voices, but for the last few days, I am adjusting the RATE first, then INTONATION to make the pronounciation better like real speech, but as I am ADJUSTING THE INTONATION, THE RATE JUST GOES TO THE BASE TO 1.00. And also, when adjusting the INTONATION, IF I HAVE A RATE SET BEFORE, IT DOES NOT PREVIEW THE ADJUSTED INTONATION. I have been having this problem for some 3-5 days, and it seems like some kind of n annoying problem as I can't create the voices I have been for the last few weeks. I would appreciate if you can correct this problem. Thank you so much.
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YutongTie-MSFT 48,586 Reputation points

2021-01-20T01:23:30+00:00

Thanks Serhat, will forward this to engineering team for fixing and updating.

Regards,
Yutong
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Speech Studio Bug report: Editing intonations has no effect for some Languages/Voices

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