Thursday
Room 4
09:00 - 10:00
(UTC+02)
Talk (60 min)
Clone yourself with Azure Custom Neural Voice
Everyone has at some point wished they could clone themselves – to do the dishes, or work more efficiently. With advancements and improved accessibility of AI, this becomes more of a reality...
This session will explore how to use Azure Custom Neural Voice to create a synthesised version of our own voice for use in a range of fun and practical applications – telephony, voice overs, or even attending meetings on your behalf...!
We'll cover the basics of training and tweaking a model of our own voice, with minimal code, that can be used to turn text into natural-sounding speech.
Advancing further, we'll learn some ways to train our model with enhanced training data. As an example we'll take a larger amount of audio, such as a podcast, use widely available tools and APIs to identify the individual speakers and the words being spoken – including highly technical language – to feed into our model.
You will leave with the knowledge and inspiration to give "cloning" your voice a try!
Callum Whyte
Callum Whyte is a x5 Microsoft MVP and x7 Umbraco MVP specialising in building robust scalable solutions on Azure and the .NET stack, as well as websites with the open-source Umbraco CMS. By day he heads up the award-winning team at Bump, across the UK and Australia.
Away from his desk you can find him organising community events; from local meetups and hackathons, to global conferences and roadshows. He’s an active contributor to open source projects, a regular speaker at events all over the world, as well as co-host of a weekly YouTube series “UmbraCoffee”!