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Microsoft Announces Launch of Customizable AI-Powered Digital Avatar

Microsoft has recently announced the launch of its text-to-speech avatars on its Azure AI platform, which will enable businesses to design customized digital humans driven by natural language AI. With the new avatars, word input may be used to initiate interactive experiences and photorealistic avatar videos. Custom virtual assistants, instructional films, digital doubles, and other items can be created by users.

Introduced in the recently held Microsoft Ignite, these avatars incorporate text-to-speech models with computer vision advances. In order to train a personalized avatar, users can upload a few pictures and video samples of themselves. The AI technology matches the person’s voice and likeness with exceptional fidelity by accurately mimicking lip motions and vocal intonations.

High-quality video content generally takes a lot of time and money. Microsoft, however, is making the bold assumption that its text-to-speech avatars will make it possible to create dynamic talking digital anchors, brand spokesmen, tutorial instructors, and other virtual characters more quickly and affordably.

Also, the avatars will provide a more natural conversation experience with AI assistants. Microsoft demonstrated an avatar shopping assistant that uses Azure AI search and database capabilities to handle inquiries and carry out transactions in real time.

Neural rendering and strong voice cloning are used by the avatar creator internally. The technology creates a phonetic sequence by

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