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Azure Cognitive Services—Brazilian Portuguese added to neural Text to Speech

13th March 2020 Anthony Mashford

Francisca, our new Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR) voice, has been added to neural Text to Speech. Francisca features the same human-like natural prosody of the other neural Text to Speech voices on Azure.
Source: Azure Roadmap

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