Learn how to develop speech-enabled applications by using the Speech service.

The Speech service enables you to build speech-enabled applications. This talk focuses on using speech-to-text and text-to-speech APIs, which enable you to create apps capable of speech recognition and synthesis.

We will also learn - Translation of speech builds on speech recognition by recognizing and transcribing spoken input in a specified language and returning translations of the transcription in one or more other languages.

What we will learn:

•Use the Speech-to-Text API to implement speech recognition
•Use the Text-to-Speech API to implement speech synthesis
•Configure audio format and voices
•Use Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
•Generate text translation from speech.
•Synthesize spoken translations.

Speaker Bio: Vivek Sridhar
Vivek is a technophile and an Open-Source contributor with around 17 years of experience in the Software Industry and works at Microsoft as Senior Cloud Advocate. In his previous role, he has mentored startups/developers, speaker at conferences/meetups for DigitalOcean as Senior Developer Advocate, Co-Founder / Chief-Architect of NoodleNext Technology. He was also heading DevOps and QA at BlackBuck and was a DevOps Solution Architect at HCL (Australia) in client engagement. Vivek started his career with IBM Rational (India Software Labs) as a Software Developer.

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