Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services: Text to Speech API – Published!

My new Pluralsight course, Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services: Text to Speech API, has just been published. You can find it here. If you would like to check out my other courses, you can find them on my author’s profile. Here is the course synopsis:

Short description:
In this course, you will gain a foundational knowledge of the Text to Speech API that will help you move forward with your overall understanding of the Microsoft Cognitive Services Suite.
 
Long description:
With AI becoming more and more ubiquitous in application development, it is important to quickly and easily integrate intelligence into your application. In this course, Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services: Text to Speech API, you will learn how to understand, configure, and utilize the Text to Speech API. First, you will discover how to use out of the box voices. Next, you will explore how to use machine learning-based voices in your app. Finally, you will learn how to create and use custom voices for your application and brand. When you are finished with this course, you will have a foundational knowledge of the Text to Speech API that will help you move forward with your overall understanding of the Microsoft Cognitive Services Suite.
 
Tags for this course:
Audience/Roles: software-development
Topics/Subjects: cloud-platforms
Tools: azure-cognitive-services

Authoring for Pluralsight – Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services: Text to Speech API

I’m excited to announce that I am authoring another course for Pluralsight. This course targets software developers who are looking to get started with Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services: Text to Speech API to build modern AI solutions and want to get started building an AI solution with a simple REST interface. This course continues from the other Cognitive Services courses created and being created for the Cognitive Services track.

Abstract

With AI becoming more and more ubiquitous, it is important to quickly and easily integrate with AI services. This course will show how to create modern applications using Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services: Text to Speech API with JavaScript, C#, Java, C++, and Python.

Prerequisites

This course assumes viewers are familiar with C# or Java or JavaScript or Python or C++ and understands REST APIs and JSON.

Description

Contoso is an insurance company that has decided to integrate text to speech for multiple consumer facing applications. This course will take a look at utilizing the following features of Cognitive Services – Text to Speech API:

  • Default API interface through multiple SDKs: JavaScript, C#, Java, C++, and Python
  • Creating custom voice fonts
  • Popular scenarios and use case for Text to Speech