text-to-speech

Microsoft’s MAI launch is a deliberate pivot: the company is taking the pieces it once licensed, packaging them with native infrastructure and orchestration tools, and betting the future of productivity on a team of specialized agents rather than a single, monolithic brain. This matters for...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly gained a practical, no-nonsense speech option: Scripted Mode, a new setting inside Copilot Labs’ Audio Expressions that reads user-provided text verbatim. The change, publicly teased by Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman on September 10, 2025, is short on...

Microsoft’s Copilot has taken a significant step toward turning text prompts into fully produced audio, introducing native speech generation powered by Microsoft AI’s new MAI-Voice-1 model and exposed today to users through Copilot Labs’ audio modes. The capability converts scripts into...

Microsoft's Copilot Labs has quietly expanded the Audio Expressions sandbox with a new Scripted mode, bringing a verbatim reading option to a feature set already known for expressive, multi‑character voice synthesis—and it arrives at a moment when Microsoft is moving aggressively into...

Microsoft has quietly crossed a strategic Rubicon: after years of tight integration with OpenAI, the company has begun shipping its own first-party foundation models — notably MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview — and is positioning them inside Copilot and Azure as the start of a long-term bid to...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot experiment turns text into talk — and, in early tests, it sounds more like a collaborator than a canned text‑to‑speech bot. The company has quietly introduced MAI‑Voice‑1, a high‑throughput speech generation model surfaced in a new Copilot Labs experience called Audio...

Microsoft’s AI group quietly cut the ribbon on two home‑grown foundation models on August 28, releasing a high‑speed speech engine and a consumer‑focused text model that together signal a strategic shift: Microsoft intends to build its own AI muscle even as its long, lucrative relationship with...

Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...

Microsoft’s new VibeVoice marks a striking shift in what open-source text-to-speech can do: from short, single-voice clips to hour‑scale, multi‑speaker spoken audio that resembles a produced podcast — and it’s available now for researchers and tinkerers to try. The framework packages a compact...

Microsoft’s VibeVoice-1.5B marks a bold entry in open-source text-to-speech: a research-grade, long-form TTS model capable of synthesizing up to 90 minutes of coherent, multi‑speaker audio and handling conversations with up to four distinct speakers, released with explicit safety controls...

Magnifier is an essential accessibility feature built into Windows that helps users with low vision to better interact with their screens. One often underutilized but incredibly powerful capability of Magnifier is its ability to read text aloud, converting visible on-screen information into an...

Microsoft Edge's Immersive Reader is a powerful tool designed to enhance the online reading experience by simplifying webpage layouts, removing distractions, and offering customizable features to suit individual preferences. Originally developed to assist readers with dyslexia and dysgraphia...

Reading online content can be a daunting task in today’s digital landscape. Webpages are often cluttered with advertisements, popups, and design elements that distract readers from the main text. In response, browser developers continually strive to incorporate tools that facilitate focus...

It’s a time-honored ritual: you click play on your favorite digital assistant, and out comes the brisk, sometimes eerie, yet strikingly articulate voice—one that’s come a long way from the robotic monotones of the 1980s. But just how well do we truly understand these synthesized voices...

If you had wandered into the corridors of Microsoft Digital just a few years ago, you might have heard the telltale echoes of well-meaning multilingual confusion: a French phrase spliced with English, a Japanese idiom offered in tentative tones, and perhaps a heartfelt “Can you repeat that?”...

The advent of the o3 and o4-mini models on the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service marks a thrilling leap into the next generation of AI reasoning. These latest entries in the o-series, unveiled within Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, don't merely build upon past versions—they shatter previous benchmarks...

Microsoft is once again pushing the envelope in AI innovation with the release of its new GPT-4o mini audio models, now available in preview on Azure AI Services. Targeted at developers and enterprises alike, these new models promise to deliver efficient speech-to-text and text-to-speech...

Ever dreamed of a world where your AI assistant not only writes brilliant responses but also narrates them like a tech-savvy audiobook? Wait no more—the future is here, and Microsoft Copilot is leading the charge with its latest enhancement: read-aloud support for chat responses. Set to launch...

Starting with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft Edge will support the Speech Synthesis APIs defined in the W3C Web Speech API Specification. These APIs allow websites to convert text to audible speech with customizable voice and language settings. With them, website developers can add...

As developers, we adapt as technologies move from the realm of Science Fiction into readily available SDKs. That’s certainly, or perhaps especially, true for speech technologies. In the past 5 years, devices have become more personal and demanding of new forms of interaction. In Windows 10...