At its annual Build developer conference on Tuesday, Microsoft announced new features for its Azure AI Speech service that enhance voice-enabled, generative AI-powered app development. Azure AI Speech ...

Microsoft's new gpt-realtime-mini and gpt-4o-mini models in Azure AI Foundry offer 70% lower costs and 50% better accuracy, targeting enterprise voice agents.

There are several AI tools available that can generate humanlike speech. Some AI voices can whisper, laugh, and perform other expressive feats. TTS tools vary in terms of level of realism and their ...

Microsoft has introduced a new AI model that, it says, can process speech, vision, and text locally on-device using less compute capacity than previous models. Innovation in generative artificial ...