I signed on hesitantly, to test out the text to speech function, am required to put in all sorts of personal information including credit card. To then go into a maze to try to find the **** program, which is like finding the lost ark. this is ridiculous to initial users and am very turned off by it. Really considering not using your services at all. Shame on you Microsoft. no training not tutorial except for other overly complex things. This should have been a simple click and go procedure. Fix your maze!

I need something simple, place text, hear speech. Not search for atlantis to just open the program.

Dealing with Numbers
After transcribing audio into text, we have a Python script were we are trying to deal with privacy. Therefore, we are masking all the numbers (e.g. 0,1,2,3,4,5,6... and one, two, three etc.).

Unfortunately, this is not fulfilling, since we want to remove on the one hand all the personal info. However, on the other hand keeping product information (e.g. serial number, product number etc.).

Therefore my question: are there any best practices for this problem (since I cannot imagine that we are the first one dealing with this :-)).

Many thanks in advance!

Example:
Original: Hi, my phone number is 12345 and I am calling for product X, with serial number 9876.
Our case: Hi, my phone number is !!!!! and I am calling for product X, with serial number !!!!.

We would like to have the serial number.. and it can also happen that it is not appearing directly after each other. E.g.:

>Hi, welcome how can i help you?
>Hi, i would like to return product X
>Ok. Do you have a serial number for me?
>Is that the same as a product number?
>Yes
>Ok. It is 9876

From what I see in the documentation, there's no option to set a timeout for a batch transcription job. I would like the transcription that is in "NotStarted" status for more than a specific amount of time to be discarded. And I would like to set the timeout value while I am creating the request

I am doing batch transcription in a loop for a set of audio files one after another. For one of the transcription jobs which was created on 1:26 pm EST 10/22/2020 and until now (2:46 pm) is still in "NotStarted" state. I am not even able to delete the job and I am getting a response saying "DeleteNotAllowed - The transcription task hasn't finished yet", BUT the transcription has also not started for more than an hour!

Of course, I could implement my loop in such a way that it could move on to the next audio after waiting for some time but Id like that to see timeout option

Various initials are mispronounced as abbreviations in Dutch by text-to-speech. Since Teams uses this service for the voicemail messages, this is very annoying. These are a few examples:

b. - pronounced as bruto
c. - pronounced as cent
e. - pronounced as edidiet
f. - pronounced as forte
H. - pronounced as heilige
i. - pronounced as in
l. - pronounced as loco
p. - pronounced as piano
t. - pronounced as temperatuur
H.M. - pronounced as Hare Majesteit (Her Majesty)
V.J. - pronounced as vorig jaar (last year).
G.B. - Gedaan en bieden
B.G. - Bovengenoemde

We would like to see that these abbreviations are pronounced normally; letter by letter.

I also made a Uservoice at https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/908686-bug-reports/suggestions/41672296-voicemail-greeting-don-t-pronounce-initials-as-a

Hi, my company has been using Azure's speech to text service and are happy with the results.

However, we've hit a snag. For the RecordingsUrl parameter, I understand we will be passing in a blob uri that's public facing (no auth required), but our audio files are stored in a 3rd party service whereby an auth bearer token is required to be passed into the header to be able to access the .wav file (request header: { Authorization: Bearer <token> }).

For the speech to text Rest API, is it possible if we can have an additional parameter (eg. RecordingsUrlToken) that we can pass a token to so that it can then use said token to get the .wav file?

Thanks in advance.