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  1. Microsoft Live Interpreter API: Real-Time, Language-Identifying Speech Translation (Preview)

    Microsoft has opened the Live Interpreter API in public preview, a new Azure Speech Translation capability that promises continuous, real‑time speech‑to‑speech translation without requiring developers or users to preselect an input language. (techcommunity.microsoft.com) Background Microsoft’s...
  2. Microsoft’s Azure AI Speech Boosts Voice Cloning with Zero-Shot Technology: Risks and Rewards

    In a significant leap forward for voice technology, Microsoft has unveiled a major upgrade to Azure AI Speech that dramatically reduces the amount of audio required to clone a human voice. With the introduction of the DragonV2.1Neural zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) model, users now need only a...