One of the more unexpected products to launch out of the Microsoft Ignite 2023 event is a tool that can create a photorealistic avatar of a person and animate that avatar saying things that the person ...

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You can use speech-to-text on Microsoft Word through the "Dictate" feature, which lets you write using your own voice.

Microsoft agreed today to acquire Nuance Communications, a leader in speech to text software, for $19.7 billion. Bloomberg broke the story over the weekend that the two companies were in talks. In a ...

Microsoft is opening up limited access to a text-to-speech AI called Custom Neural Voice, which allows developers to create custom synthetic voices. The tech is part of an Azure AI service called ...

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 ...

Microsoft Word provides a reliable and efficient way to convert audio into text, whether you’re dealing with pre-recorded files or live recordings. This functionality is particularly beneficial for ...