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What is the best approach to create audio files providing a list of links using Azure Audio Content Creation?

I know how to manually create MP3 audio files from an article using Azure Audio Content Creation tools (text-to-speech). Is there a way to bulk create audio files providing a list of article links using this same tool? It can be using the command line.…

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
asked 2023-03-29T14:20:53.9633333+00:00
eera5607 0 Reputation points
commented 2023-03-31T20:49:29.3366667+00:00
VasaviLankipalle-MSFT 1,996 Reputation points
1 answer

Minimal network requirements for speech-to-text

Hi, I am using Cognitive Services speech-to-text service and want to know if there is a minimal network bandwidth requirement. We want to use on some pc's that may have a poor internet connection, how would this influence the speech-to-text…

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
asked 2023-03-31T09:10:28.7633333+00:00
Daniel Beck Hansen 1 Reputation point
answered 2023-03-31T16:18:42.2366667+00:00
Ramr-msft 10,986 Reputation points
0 answers

text-to-speech Python SDK SSML Not effective

text-to-speech Python SDK SSML voice-sentenceboundarysilence-exact Not effective

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
asked 2023-03-31T10:40:59.2+00:00
色 悦 0 Reputation points
edited the question 2023-03-31T12:44:48.2566667+00:00
AjayBathini-MSFT 20 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
0 answers

Batch API | External lexicon for de-DE ignored.

My example returns a nice sounding audio but the lexicon is ignored. Any hints welcome. :) Region is germanywestcentral My lexicon file: My lexicon uri: https://shelf.ir-media-tec.com/azure/tts/lexicon_deDE_ipa.xml My request JSON: { …

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
asked 2023-03-29T12:58:58.88+00:00
IR MediaAd GmbH 0 Reputation points
commented 2023-03-31T11:18:44.9866667+00:00
romungi-MSFT 30,291 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
0 answers

TTS Custom Lexicon is not applied

I am trying to apply a custom lexicon to the Text-to-Speech service. Here is my lexicon file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <lexicon version="1.0" …

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
Azure Cognitive Services
Azure Cognitive Services
A group of Azure artificial intelligence services and cognitive APIs that help build intelligent apps.
1,008 questions
asked 2023-03-30T10:16:43.3066667+00:00
Karin Hedberg 15 Reputation points
commented 2023-03-31T08:41:31.3833333+00:00
Karin Hedberg 15 Reputation points
2 answers

Speech to Text

Good morning, I am exploring your Speech-To-Text with the aim of creating a service that makes calls, asks a question, analyzes the response, and records it. For each call, an instance is created to isolate the transcription. The service streams audio to…

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
asked 2023-03-30T11:02:01.08+00:00
Pedro Rodrigues 0 Reputation points
commented 2023-03-31T08:31:40.3433333+00:00
romungi-MSFT 30,291 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer

Using Azure speech to text with nodejs converting mulaw to pcm

I'm using twilio <stream> to send mulaw audio via websocket to my nodejs app and trying to convert mulaw to pcm for azure speech to text. my code is below. the app connects and sends audio but the speech to text results are empty or nomatch. …

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
asked 2021-09-29T12:29:03.187+00:00
Kenneth Arakelian 6 Reputation points
edited an answer 2023-03-31T06:15:38.4133333+00:00
Anees Sadeek 5 Reputation points
0 answers

Synthesizer error with paragraph starts with "<p><prosody ...>"

With some sentences that start with <p><prosody ...>, the text is synthesized incorrectly. If something is between, everything is fine: <p>Hi!<prosody ...>. See the example below. Suggestions <p>Hello. My name is Matthew,…

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
asked 2023-03-23T16:19:34.7233333+00:00
Roy Jensen 5 Reputation points
edited a comment 2023-03-30T23:22:37.4133333+00:00
VasaviLankipalle-MSFT 1,996 Reputation points
0 answers

How to set STT results to show only one language

Hello, I am currently using a custom stt for korean and have trained it with about 100,000 korean text datasets. For the recognition part, I'm using…

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
Cognitive Service for Language
Cognitive Service for Language
An Azure service that provides natural language capabilities including sentiment analysis, entity extraction, and automated question answering.
185 questions
asked 2023-03-27T10:21:12.51+00:00
Sunmin Cho 0 Reputation points
commented 2023-03-30T13:54:00.0333333+00:00
romungi-MSFT 30,291 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer

How to customize silence time between sentence groups in Azure Text to Speech

I am trying to reduce the gap between two sentence groups in Text to Speech in Azure console. The gap between sentences can be reduced by specifying sentenceboundarysilence i.e. sentenceboundarysilence="5ms", but I don't know how to customize…

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
Azure Cognitive Services
Azure Cognitive Services
A group of Azure artificial intelligence services and cognitive APIs that help build intelligent apps.
1,008 questions
asked 2023-03-28T17:55:53.16+00:00
Srikant Mishra 0 Reputation points
answered 2023-03-30T13:45:38.3966667+00:00
ThioJoe 5 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Error with Azure STT (Speech to Text) - Internal server error

Hello everyone, I am new to Azure Speech to Text (STT) and I am facing an issue while trying to test my model. Every time I try to test it, I get the following error message: Internal server error. Please recreate the task in a while. If the failure…

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
Azure
Azure
A cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying and managing applications and services through a worldwide network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.
249 questions
asked 2023-03-29T15:30:55.3466667+00:00
1234 20 Reputation points
accepted 2023-03-30T00:38:30.7266667+00:00
1234 20 Reputation points
0 answers

ERROR: Failed to detect voice's [en-USGuyNeural] endpoint for synthesizing.

I am running into an error when changing voice using the Speech Studio. If I change voices in the SSML file, the synthesizer outputs an error. Below is a script that generates the error. <speak xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis"…

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
asked 2023-03-23T16:13:22.3833333+00:00
Roy Jensen 5 Reputation points
commented 2023-03-29T19:18:52.3933333+00:00
Roy Jensen 5 Reputation points
0 answers

Azure TTS Problem - Inconsistent SSML Tag Functionality

I have an issue when using the 'leading-exact' and 'tailing-exact' tags through the TTS API. In the speech studio web interface, voice clips synthesized using these tags work basically as expected. However, when sending a request through the Azure API,…

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
asked 2023-03-27T20:42:20.9066667+00:00
ThioJoe 5 Reputation points
edited a comment 2023-03-29T16:23:53.95+00:00
ThioJoe 5 Reputation points
1 answer

Lexicon file- multilingual Jenny

Hello, I´m currently producing audio files with the multilingual Jenny on MS Speech Studio (Text-to-Speech- function). Is there a chance to create a lexicon file for Jenny multilingual? Thanks!

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
asked 2022-08-24T07:13:33.127+00:00
Steinkrug, Michelle 71 Reputation points
commented 2023-03-29T15:15:14.8633333+00:00
sebastian-iaodew 16 Reputation points
0 answers

Lexicon not applied to text

I created a lexicon file in the 'My files' section of Speech Studio and linked that file a voice in the SSML file. Saving then reopening the SSML file shows a link to the Lexicon file, but it is not applied when playing or exporting the audio file.…

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
asked 2023-03-23T16:26:01.2433333+00:00
Roy Jensen 5 Reputation points
edited a comment 2023-03-29T02:17:54.67+00:00
Roy Jensen 5 Reputation points
0 answers

Text to Speech pricing - when are the characters counted?

I see that the text to speech for neural voices is $16 per 1M characters. When are the characters counted? Are they only counted when the Export function is triggered or are they also counted during the tuning steps?

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
asked 2021-01-16T17:46:34.583+00:00
Lily Chu 6 Reputation points
edited a comment 2023-03-28T15:11:12.7333333+00:00
Sharon Huston 0 Reputation points
1 answer

Azure Speech studio Export failed

When exporting a text to speech audio file I receive the message Error: You're sending frequent requests to server. Retry the operation later or switch to a standard paid tier. This worked fine without issue several weeks back. Did something change and…

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
asked 2023-03-25T09:09:51.0166667+00:00
commented 2023-03-28T11:03:25.58+00:00
romungi-MSFT 30,291 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
0 answers

Speech Cognitive services Authentication error (401) in Unity C# even with correct subscription key

I was trying to implement the speech to text feature in Unity, but after I start startTranscription(string audiofilepath) then it comes to errors. I also used the correct key. Is there anything I am missing there? That's the script: using…

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
Azure Cognitive Services
Azure Cognitive Services
A group of Azure artificial intelligence services and cognitive APIs that help build intelligent apps.
1,008 questions
asked 2023-03-26T21:23:41.6233333+00:00
Tuncay Ünal 0 Reputation points
commented 2023-03-28T10:59:22.71+00:00
romungi-MSFT 30,291 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
0 answers

Speech SDK trowing error: Exception with an error code: 0xe (SPXERR_MIC_NOT_AVAILABLE)

I have a small script in python: def listen(language): speech_config.speech_recognition_language=language audio_config = speechsdk.audio.AudioConfig(use_default_microphone=True) speech_recognizer =…

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
asked 2023-03-13T09:08:44.1966667+00:00
Fabian Lechner 0 Reputation points
commented 2023-03-27T07:58:39.4966667+00:00
Ronald 0 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Can I use Azure Text-to-Speech for Commercial Usage?

Hi @YutongTie-MSFT Can I use the Azure Text-to-Speech for Freelancing (Voice-over)? on Upwork and Fiverr. for such kinds of videos; Company introduction video, Factory introduction video, Online Marketplace (Amazon, Alibaba), and more about…

Azure Speech
Azure Speech
An Azure service that integrates speech processing into apps and services.
832 questions
asked 2023-03-23T07:19:43.9266667+00:00
Newstart 20 Reputation points
commented 2023-03-27T05:35:04.74+00:00
romungi-MSFT 30,291 Reputation points Microsoft Employee