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Knowing the history of Microsoft marketing, it will either be called something like "Microsoft Copilot Code Generator for VSCode" or something like "Zunega"...
Well don't forget "Microsoft SQL" ;) They'll name something as though they invented it and now have the worse possible way to google it.
I read the comments praising these voices as very life like, and went to the page primed to hear very convincing voices. That is not at all what I heard though. The voices are decent, but the intonation is off on almost every phrase, and there is a very clear robotic-sounding modulation. It's generally very impressive compared to many text-to-speech solutions from a few years ago, but for today, I find it very uninsp…
Wow. I admit that I am not a native speaker, but this looks (or rather, sounds) VERY impressive and I could mistake it for hearing two people talking.
The giveaway is they will never talk over each other. Only one speaker at a time, consistently.
Hey look! [enthusiastic] Should we tell the others? Maybe not ... [giggles]
In fact, I think this kind of thing is absolutely necessary if you want to use this to replace a voice actor.
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Well don't forget "Microsoft SQL" ;) They'll name something as though they invented it and now have the worse possible way to google it.
“Microsoft Word” haha reminds me of the old joke : “Microsoft Works” is an oxymoron.
I really hope someone within Microsoft is naming their open source coding agent Microsoft VibeCode. Let this be a thing. Its either that or "Lo" then you can have Lo work with Phi, so you can Vibe code with Lo Phi. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-bl...
Knowing the history of Microsoft marketing, it will either be called something like "Microsoft Copilot Code Generator for VSCode" or something like "Zunega"...
This is clearly high quality but there's something about the voices, the male voices in particular, which immediately register as computer generated. My audio vocabulary is not rich enough to articulate what it is.
I would describe it as blockly, as if we visualise the sound wave it seems to be without peaks and cut upwards and downwards producing a metallic boxy echo.
I read the comments praising these voices as very life like, and went to the page primed to hear very convincing voices. That is not at all what I heard though. The voices are decent, but the intonation is off on almost every phrase, and there is a very clear robotic-sounding modulation. It's generally very impressive compared to many text-to-speech solutions from a few years ago, but for today, I find it very uninsp…
The male voices seem much worse than the female voices, borderline robotic. Every sample of their website starts with a female voice. They clearly are aware of the issue.