Bing Speech API: speech <-> text with mixed-language inputs

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I want to do speech <-> text with mixed-language inputs.

Initially only Chinese & English, but eventually more language pairs. Vast majority of speech will be English, but small amounts of Chinese will be included. The application is kind of a "conversational verbal dictionary":

  • speech-to-text with mixed-language input: "How do you say 猫？"

  • text-to-speech with mixed-language input: "The English word for 猫 is Cat." I would want this to be spoken with the voice/accent of a native English speaker.

    • I noticed that the text-to-speech demo at this URL can handle sentences like this IF you choose the "Chinese-CN", "Chinese-HK", or "Chinese-TW" accent, but not if you choose any of the "English-*" accents. This doesn't work for me because I need a native English-speaking accent ...
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1 Answers

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Bing Speech to Text does mixed language support for a small set of vocabulary for Chinese/english. But this is a small set and we do not have plans to expand to other languages this year.

Text To Speech is only available for the voices published.