Azure Cognitive Services is letting developers create natural-sounding speech even without a lot of expertise in machine learning. Here's how. Traditionally, when a computer has attempted to convert ...

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Thanks to the AI features in Microsoft's cloud, text-to-speech technology can render more realistic results than ever. Imagine being able to have any text read to you like a book. No, not by your mama ...

Currently, there is no such thing as a single Microsoft speech service. But Microsoft is taking the first steps toward creating a single speech application programming programming interface (API) and ...

Canary Speech, maker of speech analysis software, is partnering with Microsoft to apply the tech giant's AI technology to expand its machine learning speech models for healthcare. Canary offers vocal ...

At its Build developer conference in Seattle this week, Microsoft is putting a lot of emphasis on its AI and machine learning services. For the most part, that means launching new services and ...

Microsoft's consolidated speech technology unit, Microsoft Tellme, is working with a number of product teams inside the company to make speech recognition and understanding a key component of a number ...

Microsoft's Build 2018 developer conference kicks off today, and the first day is all about AI and the intelligent edge. The company says that its first AI device with speech, gaze, and vision was the ...

Developers have four distinct platform opportunities from Microsoft, according to Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO, during the Day 1 Build event keynote talk. Those opportunities include the intelligent ...

It wouldn’t be a Microsoft Build without a bunch of new capabilities for Azure Cognitive Services, Microsoft’s cloud-based AI tools for developers. The first new feature is what Microsoft calls the ...