Translating Text to Speech

In this lesson, you’ll learn about the Azure Speech and Translator services. You’ll learn about the key features and what’s possible with each of these services. You’ll find out how these services can be used with SDKs, REST APIs, and the command-line interface. You’ll see demos of the Translator, Speech-to-text, and Text-to-speech services in action and understand how to use them.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the main capabilities of the Azure Speech service
• Learn available options for using the Azure Speech service
• Translate text using the Translator service
• Translate speech to text
• Translate text to speech

Intended Audience

This lesson is intended for developers or software architects who want to learn more about the Azure Speech and Translator services.

Prerequisites

Intermediate knowledge of C# and coding techniques is required for this lesson. You’ll also need to be familiar with Azure concepts such as App Service and resources. An understanding of APIs is also required. We’ll be writing a little code and will be using Visual Studio Community Edition, so you’ll need a copy of that too.