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.

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

This textbook (Computer Security Handbook by Seymour Bosworth et al., Chapter 33) seems to cause countless errors using the Aria Neural voice. (attached txt and pdf were trimmed to respect the copyright of the author)

It messes up the chapter markers, saying "January First, Thirty Three" when it says "33.1.1" (as well as all the other section markers)

802.11 is pronounced "eight hundred and two point one one"

SSIDs is pronounced "sids"

BSSIDs is pronounced "bsids"

2Mb/s (as well as other Mb/s numbers) is pronounced "two em bee slash ess" which should be pronounced 2 Megabits per second.

LAN is pronounced lon instead of lan

VLAN should be pronounced "V-lan" instead of being spelled out or occasionally pronounced "vlan" as in vlog and pan put together.

There are other mistakes in this paper as well, but I don't have time to list them all here. Still, the TTS is in serious need of learning tech vocabulary.

Irish (Gaeilge) tts works if correct IPA syntax is used when sending the request for tts with the IPA option included.

                            Example... 

Ba chuid mhór den togra seo teacht ar ábhar a bheadh chomh maith nó níos fearr ná an fhuinseog agus an t-ábhar a bheith níos inmharthana.

                     translated to IPA..

"bˠɑː xɪdʲ woːˈr dʲəɴʲ tʲɔɡˈrə ʃoː tʃæxt eˈr ɑːwəˈr ɑː vʲəh xɔv mˠɑːh ɴˠoː ɴʲiːsˠ fʲæˈrr ɴˠɑː en ɪɴʲʃoːɡ əɡʊsˠ en tʲɑːwəˈr ɑː vʲeɪh ɴʲiːsˠ ɪɴʲwəˈrhɑːɴˠɑː"

The IPA (irish) text can be read and spoken accurately by Neural EN-GB or EN-US voice.

I have attached a file that converts Irish sentences into IPA text. Suggest that this conversion from Irish text to IPA text should be available at Microsoft server side so that tts for irish (Gaeilge) would be available for everyone. Please see attached example of irish Gaeilge tts MP3 using this method.

The script attached converts irish to IPA has room for improvement but mostly gives good enough output for intelligible speech.

http://lmknjb.com/irishTTS/IRISHLINE-11.mp3