How does this translate in Windows PowerShell? Now if we’d like to have her say something different, we just change the content in red. We first replace the locale with “en-AU,” and then the service name mapping with “Microsoft Server Speech Text to Speech Voice (en-AU, Catherine).” Let’s take a sample from the table, and change this to an Australian female voice. The section in RED is the actual content that Azure would like us to convert to speech. If you mix them up, Azure will wag its finger at you and give a nasty error back. The double quotes are also equally important. The locale must always be matched with the same service name mapping from the row it came from. The BLUE section contains our service name mapping. The section highlighted in GREEN is our locale. Hello everyone, this is Azure Text to Speech From here, I will try to break down the content from our example. You can copy and paste this into your editor of choice.

Now if you select View SSML (the blue button), you can see the code in SSML that would have been the body we would have sent to Azure. In the sample below, I have entered in “Hello everyone, this is Azure Text to Speech.” I could spend a lot of time reading up on it, but Azure gives you a great tool to create sample content without even trying! Check out Bing Speech, and look under the heading “Text to Speech.” In the text box, type in whatever you would like to hear. SSML, which stands for Speech Synthesis Markup Language, is a standard for identifying just how speech should be spoken.

The challenge I ran into was in just how to create the SSML content that was needed.

Region of the speech (for example, English US, Spanish, or French).įor more information about all this, see the section “Supported locales and voice fonts” in Bing text to speech API.

Next, we need to build the body of content we need to send up to Azure.

Headers containing the audio format and our application’s unique parameters.

The authentication piece, to obtain a temporary token for communicating with Cognitive Services.

We’ve accomplished the first two pieces for Cognitive Services Text-to-Speech: Let’s first off remember where we were last time. It’s actually not hard, but I needed a sample to work with. Glad to lend a hand to a Scripter in need! I remember having that same challenge the first time I worked with it. I have it almost figured out, but I’m stumbling over the final steps of formatting the SSML markup language. I was playing with the Text-to-Speech API. Summary: Send and receive content to the Text-to-Speech API with PowerShell.

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