Text to speech (speech synthesis) turns text into natural-sounding audio. Azure AI Speech offers hundreds of prebuilt neural voices across many languages and locales, named like en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural or en-GB-SoniaNeural. Uses include voice assistants, reading content aloud for accessibility, phone systems and audio versions of articles.
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