Microsoft Azure Text-to-Speech (TTS) is part of the Azure Cognitive Services suite and provides cloud-based text-to-speech capabilities. It uses advanced deep learning models to convert written text into natural-sounding speech in real time, supporting a wide range of voices, languages, and regional accents. This service is widely used in various applications such as virtual assistants, content creation, customer service, and accessibility tools.
Pricing: Based on the number of characters and the type of voice used.
Cost: Generally around $4.00 per 1 million characters for standard voices and $16.00 per 1 million characters for neural voices.