Dragon HD TTS: What's behind it?

Dragon HD Neural TTS models offer an impressive combination of context awareness, emotional expressiveness and multilingualism. This enables:

• Context-aware speech reproduction: the models accurately identify the context of text and produce appropriate intonation, style and expression.
• Authentic emotions: By recognizing emotional signals in the text, speech styles are dynamically adapted, resulting in more natural-looking speech content.
• Enhanced language support: With over 600 neural voices covering more than 150 languages and dialects, the technology is suitable for global companies.

The new features also include multi-talker models optimized for podcasts and other conversational content, as well as Flash models for faster and more resource-efficient applications.

The German Dragon HD text-to-speech models in the Azure AI Speech Service

Applications: More than just a voice robot

Text-to-speech applications not only offer new possibilities for accessibility in IT solutions, such as for people with visual impairments. They can also help to make content more dynamic and be used in different scenarios:

• Digital assistance systems: chatbots or virtual assistants benefit from natural speech quality, which improves user-friendliness.
• Content production: speech synthesis enables automated audio versions of articles, training videos or podcasts.
• Education and international communication: Multilingual and emotive TTS models can break down language barriers and enrich learning experiences.

For example, a company can use the advanced Dragon HD models to efficiently turn product descriptions and marketing texts into podcasts or create custom brand voices that reflect their identity.

Bottom line.

Increase the efficiency and quality of your IT and communication solutions with the latest text-to-speech technology from Azure.