Share via

Azure Cognitive Speech TTS Custom Japanese Non-Neural Voice Unavailable

淑纓 楊 21 Reputation points
2021-05-13T06:15:07.91+00:00

Hello,

I'm on the S0 Tier for Azure Cognitive Speech services and am trying to train a custom voice for Japanese TTS. My data was successfully processed. But I wasn't able to select "Statistical Parametric" or "Concatenative" as my training method. "Neural" was the only option on the list.

96189-screen-shot-2021-05-13-at-20148-pm.png

However, I was able to use those non-neural methods for English and Chinese projects.

96139-screen-shot-2021-05-13-at-20206-pm.png

I'm aware that non-neural custom voices are being deprecated but I don't see any information on the documentation about them being disabled in certain languages.

Does anyone know if I could still train a Japanese non-neural voice model? If so, how?

Thank you very much in advance.

Azure AI Speech
Azure AI Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
1,555 questions
Azure AI services
Azure AI services
A group of Azure services, SDKs, and APIs designed to make apps more intelligent, engaging, and discoverable.
2,645 questions
Accepted answer
  1. YutongTie-MSFT 48,586 Reputation points
    2021-05-18T21:52:29.007+00:00

    Hello @淑纓 楊

    I just got confirmation that Non-Neutral voice training has been deprecated.

    To answer your question about why you can train non-neutral voice model for some languages but not for Japanese: We allow current users to re-train non-neural voices for their existing projects, but they are not allowed to train new voices

    For user use non-neutral, we have a short guidance to help you mitigate to neutral training:
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/how-to-custom-voice#migrate-to-custom-neural-voice

    Sorry for the inconvenience.

    Regards,
    Yutong

    0 comments

0 additional answers

Sort by: Most helpful
Most helpful Newest Oldest