9. Voice Dream Reader. Pricing: $59.99/year ‘. Voice Dream Reader resonates with those with disabilities, offering both text to speech and the ability to change text into a dyslexia-friendly font. Supporting an array of file formats and voice options, it ensures content accessibility is not just a buzzword but a reality. Azure with Phrase Set: Azure’s performance was commendable achieving a WER of 14.70%. While it consistently outperformed the Google models, it too struggled with spelling things out though to a lesser extent. OpenAI Speech to text: The results were impressive, especially when compared to the other engines I tested. With a WER score of just 7 2. Hi this is Darren from Microsoft's Speech SDK team. If you are doing recognition from a WAV file, we attempt to upload audio at twice the "real-time" rate. Therefore, on a good network connection, and if the Azure region of the Speech Service you are using is geographically close to you, the fastest you will be able to transcribe one hour of To use your custom neural voice, you must specify the voice model name, use the custom URI directly in an HTTP request, and use the same Speech resource to pass through the authentication of the text to speech service. The custom endpoint is functionally identical to the standard endpoint that's used for text to speech requests. Creating a SpeechConfig. In your C# file you’ll need to add the following using statement to get access to speech classes in the SDK: using Microsoft.CognitiveServices.Speech; Once you have that, you can create a SpeechConfig instance. This object is the main object that communicates with Azure and allows us to recognize and synthesize speech. The Speech service automatically handles punctuation as appropriate, such as pausing after a period, or using the correct intonation when a sentence ends with a question mark. Special characters To use the characters & , < , and > within the SSML element's value or text, you must use the entity format. Hi, Does Azure text-to-speech (TTS) have a feature similar to Amazon Polly speech marks? For example, given a text, it will provide the following output. input: "Mary had a little lamb." output (json format):… Speech to text: increase real-time speech to text concurrent request limit. By default, the number of concurrent real-time speech to text and speech translation requests combined is limited to 100 per resource in the base model, and 100 per custom endpoint in the custom model. For the standard pricing tier, you can increase this amount. Jwyl.