Windows 10: Microsoft Translator adds 6 new text to speech languages

Brink · Mar 8, 2018

Microsoft Translator adds 6 new languages to the list of text to speech languages, bringing the total number of supported languages to 36. Text to speech audio output allows you to play translated text in its native accent.

As mentioned in the Cognitive Services blog, the languages were added to the Bing Speech API in early February, and are now available in the Translator Text and Speech APIs, as well as end-user products.

You can use text to speech to quickly communicate with others, or to learn how to pronounce foreign words and phrases.

Say, for instance, you are visiting a museum in Vietnam—you’ve found the building but can’t find the entrance. You can just type, “Where is the entrance to the museum?” into your Microsoft Translator app to translate to Vietnamese, push the speaker button for text to speech, and you can play the audio to ask for assistance.

What’s more, you could listen and repeat the text to speech in your hotel room to practice common words and phrases.

You can also use the Microsoft Translator API to add text to speech into your own apps, products, and workflows. For instance, you could add text to speech into your customer support channels to provide real-time multilingual assistance.

The following languages are now available for text to speech, with new languages in bold:

Arabic Croatian French Indonesian Polish Spanish Bulgarian Czech German Italian Portuguese Swedish Cantonese Danish Greek Japanese Romanian Tamil Catalan Dutch Hebrew Korean Russian Thai Chinese (Simplified) English Hindi Malay Slovak Turkish Chinese (Traditional) Finnish Hungarian Norwegian Slovenian Vietnamese
Text to speech in all of the new languages is available now in the Translator app for Android, Translator for Bing, and the Microsoft Translator Text and Speech APIs. The text to speech feature is available in Translator for iOS and the Microsoft Translator live feature, with support for these new languages coming soon.
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Umar372 · Mar 8, 2018

Adding Language Pack To Hololens

Hi,

I have a question about adding new language packs in Microsoft Hololens. Like the procedure told to add new language pack in Windows 10 is go to Region&Language option add new language and then download speech pack for that language as described in link below
and it worked well on Desktop windows 10:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...-5e5db6f9c5b0/cortana-s-regions-and-languages

But in case of Microsoft Hololens there is no option available to add
new language for text to speech. If we go to Date,Time&Region option it just have option of changing region not to add the new language. Hololens has universal windows platform.

Is there any possibility to add new Language pack in Microsoft Hololens.

Best,

Umar

Karina Aris · Mar 8, 2018

what is the difference between garage dictate and Windows 10 speech recognition?

Hi,

Windows Speech Recognition is a speech recognition component developed by
Microsoft that enables the use of voice commands to perform operations, such as the dictation of text, within applications and the operating system itself.

Garage Dictate is pretty much the same with Speech Recognition. It uses your voice to type when you are tired.
Dictate is an Office add-in for Windows Outlook, Word and PowerPoint that converts speech to text using the state-of-the-art speech recognition behind Cortana and Microsoft Translator.

Thank you.

Windows 10: Microsoft Translator adds 6 new text to speech languages

Microsoft Translator adds 6 new text to speech languages

Microsoft Translator adds 6 new text to speech languages

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