Canary Speech, maker of speech analysis software, is partnering with Microsoft to apply the tech giant's AI technology to expand its machine learning speech models for healthcare. Canary offers vocal ...

Too Real: Microsoft has developed a new iteration of its neural codec language model, Vall-E, that surpasses previous efforts in terms of naturalness, speech robustness, and speaker similarity. It is ...

Microsoft’s push to add real-time speech, dictation and conversational responses to Copilot revives long-standing questions about voice-driven productivity, drawing on lessons from legacy tools to ...

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Microsoft researchers say they have created a speech recognition system that understands human conversation as well as the average person does. In a paper published this week the Microsoft Artificial ...

According to ARS Technica, the speech can match the timbre of the voice and the emotional tone of the speaker. In addition, it can also match the room's acoustics. Microsoft calls VALL-E a "neural ...

Truecaller, a caller ID app that can block and record calls, has teamed up with Microsoft to give its users a way to create an AI assistant that uses their own voice. The company originally introduced ...

During the Microsoft Ignite 2023 event, the company launched its Azure AI Speech text-to-speech avatar creator. This tool is currently available for public preview and its main function is to create ...

Microsoft is sunsetting Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) and replacing it with Voice Access. The change has been on the cards since last year, but the company has now indicated the timeline. Microsoft ...