With Azure Cognitive Services for Speech, customers can build voice-enabled apps confidently and quickly with the Speech SDK. We make it easy for customers to transcribe speech to text (STT) with high accuracy, produce natural-sounding text-to-speech (TTS) voices, and translate spoken audio. In the past few years, we have been inspired by the innovations coming out of the gaming industry, specific to AI. AI in gaming allows for flexible and reactive video game experiences. As technology continues to change and evolve, AI innovation has led to pioneering and tremendous advances in the gaming industry. Game dialogue prototyping with text to speech: Shorten the amount of time and money spent on the product to get the game to market sooner.

Voice is becoming increasingly popular in providing useful and engaging experiences for customers and employees. The Text-to-Speech (TTS) capability of Speech on Azure Cognitive Services allows you to quickly create intelligent read-aloud experience for your scenarios. In this blog, we'll walk through an exercise which you can complete in under two hours, to get started using Azure neural TTS voices and enable your apps to read content aloud. We'll provide high level guidance and sample code to get you started, and we encourage you to play around with the code and get creative with your solution! Read-aloud is a modern way to help people to read and consume content like emails and word documents more easily.