Building Speech-Enabled Applications

What information do you need from the Speech resource to use it from a client application through one of the supported SDKs?

• Location

• Key

• Subscription ID

• Unique Resource ID

When using the text-to-speech feature of the Speech service, where do the voices come from?

• You have to provide the voices by recording a library of words and sounds.

• Azure provides one voice that everyone can use.

• Azure provides synthetic and more natural sounding voices for you to choose from

• You can to link a Voice service to the text-to-speech application to use any of Azure’s voices.

What do you need to use to specify the characteristics of speech produced by the Speech SDK?

• Speech characteristics cannot be specified

• Speech characteristics are randomized

• Parameters that specify emotion

• Speech Synthesis Markup Language

Which setting should you specify if you want to translate speech from an audio file to text?

• AudioConfig

• SpeechConfig

• SpeechTranslationConfig

• TranslationRecognizer

The speech-to-text API can perform speech recognition on which of the following types of audio?

• Short streams of audio (up to 60 seconds)

• Long streams of audio

• Batches of audio files

• Audio that is at least 60 seconds

Lusukama wants to create a speech-based help desk for English and Spanish patrons but only have English speaking customer service employees. Describe how you would help them with this using Azure Cognitive Services.

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Which API would be best to use if you were creating an interactive speech application for short questions and answers, and why?

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Customers often appreciate when synthesized voices are not only localized to language but also sound realistic and have a similar accent to themselves. How would you accomplish this using the Speech SDK?

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What feature of the Speech SDK would enable you to create the following spoken dialog between two neural voices and how? Ariana (cheerfully): "I say tomato: Guy: "I say tomato (pronounced tom-ah-toe) ... Let's call the whole thing off!

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You are building a single application that can allow two people who speak different languages to speak to each other, can you use the Synthesizing event? Why or why not?

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