Microsoft Cognitive Services: Azure Custom Text to Speech

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Adam Bertram

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01 - Course Overview

01 - Course Overview.mp4

01:25

02 - Understanding Azure Speech Services - Text-to-Speech

02 - Brief Introduction to Azure Speech Services.mp4

03:02

03 - Interacting with Speech Services.mp4

01:27

03 - Setting up Speech Services Accounts

04 - Understanding Accounts and Subscriptions.mp4

02:38

05 - Setting up Speech Services.mp4

06:02

06 - Managing Accounts and Keys.mp4

05:13

04 - Understanding SSML

07 - Introduction to SSML.mp4

02:11

05 - Getting Started with the REST API

08 - Introduction to the REST API.mp4

00:45

09 - Authenticating via REST.mp4

03:46

10 - Using the AzSpeechToText PowerShell Module.mp4

03:21

06 - Converting Text to Speech

11 - Introduction.mp4

06:39

12 - Building a Bot Conversation.mp4

04:55

07 - Creating a Custom Voice Font

13 - Getting Started.mp4

02:05

14 - Training Your Custom Voice Font.mp4

06:08

15 - Creating Your Voice Font.mp4

07:09

16 - Testing Your Voice Font.mp4

03:51

08 - Converting a Blog Article to Speech

17 - Building the Project.mp4

06:20

Description

You don't have to be a math whiz to use machine learning to convert text to a natural-sounding voice. Using Azure Cognitive Services' text to speech service, developers can build features that convert text to speech by simply invoking an API method!

What You'll Learn?

Artificial intelligence has come a long way. Machine learning is being applied across many different verticals. Traditionally, machine learning has been reserved only for statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. Azure Cognitive Services is a suite of services that allow normal human beings to leverage AI to solve complex problems. One of those problems is building speech patterns that don't sound like a monotonic robot.

The text to speech service is a service inside of Azure Cognitive Services allows developers to use human-like voices across a wide variety of contexts such as audiobooks, video games, accessibility features and more.

In this course, Azure Cognitive Services: Custom Text to Speech, you will learn how to leverage this powerful service to convert text to speech with human-sounding voices.

You will learn how to get started with text to speech by setting up an account, use the REST API to invoke API calls to interact with text to speech, convert text to speech and then see a real example of a great use case for this technology.

When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge to integrate a text to speech feature in a wide range of programming languages using a natural human voice but generated with artificial intelligence!

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Adam Bertram

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Adam Bertram is an independent consultant, technical writer, trainer, and presenter. Adam specializes in consulting and evangelizing all things IT automation, mainly focused around Windows PowerShell. Adam is a Microsoft Windows PowerShell MVP, 2015 powershell.org PowerShell hero, and has numerous Microsoft IT pro certifications. He authors IT pro course content for Pluralsight, is a regular contributor to numerous print, and online publications and presents at various user groups and conferences.

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