MobileSyrup

Nunavut creates Inuktitut text-to-speech model with Microsoft’s help

The Government of Nunavut has launched a new text-to-speech tool that reads webpages in the native language of Inuktitut. It can also be used in Bing Translate and other Microsoft tools later this ...
The Hamilton Spectator

‘My name is Taqqiq, I can read text’: Microsoft Translator adds Inuktitut text-to-speech

Users of Microsoft Translator’s Inuktitut translation tool can now listen to the text they’re translating. Microsoft Canada and the Government of Nunavut announced Dec. 5 that Inuktitut text-to-speech ...
Windows Central

Microsoft’s new AI can turn plain text into a full podcast — and it’s freakishly good at it

What's happening today with Microsoft and AI, then? For once, it's not Copilot being stuffed into something, instead, an interesting new open-source project called VibeVoice. VibeVoice is an entirely ...
MediaNama

Microsoft Launches New Speech Generation AI Model MAI-Voice-1 Despite AI Capacity Constraints

Microsoft announced the release of the MAI-Voice-1 artificial intelligence (AI) model in a blog post published on the tech giant’s website on August 28. Microsoft has made it available as part of its ...