I have to second this. I was experimenting with a voice assistant and the Azure Cognitive Speech Service is by and far the most human like speech I found. I rec

I have to second this. I was experimenting with a voice assistant and the Azure Cognitive Speech Service is by and far the most human like speech I found. I recently started looking into this topic again and tried Amazon Polly and it’s pretty embarrassingly bad even for their “neural” one. Only thing Polly has going for it is the ability to modify the speech with tags (Azure may have this now! Haven’t checked in a while) but that live modification only fully works with their crappier voices. *EDIT:*. They also have a python library that’s pretty easy to use. It finally has an ARM build too finally… *EDIT 2:* Just started tinkering with Azure again, and yep they support SSML for live modification, and it works with their best neural voice. Diving back in again, here we go...