Microsoft’s Copilot AI text-to-speech will get new, cleaner ‘scripted mode’

Microsoft’s AI Supervisor Mustafa Suleyman just lately unveiled in a social media put up a brand new function referred to as “Scripted Mode” in Copilot Labs for turning written scripts into text-to-speech. Copilot Labs is an experimental platform the place you may check out Microsoft’s latest AI options which can be nonetheless in growth.

Particularly, the function is a part of Copilot Audio Expressions, which is the precise software that turns textual content into spoken audio. Beforehand, Copilot Audio Expressions solely had two modes: Story Mode (which weaves collectively a number of vocal kinds and characters for a storytelling expertise) and Emotive Mode (which makes use of a single, distinct voice that matches a selected temper with some improvisation).

With Scripted Mode, Copilot Audio Expressions can now take textual content and skim it aloud with a quick and direct take, ensuring to learn the content material verbatim with none riffing or inventive adjustments. You possibly can nonetheless choose which voice and magnificence to make use of for the studying.

Copilot Audio Expressions remains to be solely accessible in English, however Microsoft is exploring methods to help extra languages.