Can you imagine yourself having a conversation with Windows about what your PC is doing? Microsoft’s Windows chief can, and ...

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Microsoft and Tellme share a vision around the potential of speech as a way to enable access to information, locate other people and enhance business processes, any time and from any device.

Microsoft has unveiled a new text to speech tool so realistic that it is not safe to be harnessed by the public yet. OleCNX – stock.adobe.com VALL-E 2, as it is called, is the first AI vocal ...

Microsoft says in a recent blog post (via Extremetech) that it's latest neural codec language model for speech synthesis, known as VALL-E 2, achieves "human parity for the first time".

Microsoft's Windows 11 Insider Build 22518 adds Voice Access for controlling your PC with your voice. Plus a new "Spotlight" background feature has been added, and Widgets has been reworked.

Microsoft has a new Copilot Appearance virtual character that responds with real-time expressions.

Microsoft still wants to re-use your voice clips, but will now ask for permission first. Written by Daphne Leprince-Ringuet, Contributor Jan. 18, 2021 at 7:35 a.m. PT ...

Microsoft is expected to extend that support in the next version, code-named Office 11. Microsoft Reader software includes speech-to-text capabilities that audibly transform written words to a ...

Microsoft used Switchboard, a collection of recorded telephone conversations that has been used by the speech recognition community for more than two decades, as its benchmark.

Microsoft's speech recognition systems are currently used in services such as Cortana and Speech Translator and the paper detailing the latest version can be viewed here (PDF).