SxS Comparison of Cloud Neural TTS from Azure and Amazon

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Take a listen and vote the best 🙏 via a simple reaction to this issue.

This is a manual test of the highest quality neural voices from Amazon Polly Neural TTS and Azure Cognitive Neural TTS with the following text:

This little book was written to accomplish something big: economic literacy. This is lots of value at a very low cost.

(from the preface of How to Think about the Economy: A Primer)

Azure Cognitive

:+1: Jenny Neural :+1:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/169707/188531359-f2acafda-b65e-4a3a-93ae-4003ffd9d7ee.mp4

:smile: Aria Neural :smile:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/169707/188531370-5fdd390c-8f8e-4d90-83c7-4f0c0f05f623.mp4

Amazon Polly

:tada: Joanna Neural :tada:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/169707/188531426-69eb8527-bd44-435a-a79c-110813c298e0.mp4

:heart: Kendra Neural :heart:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/169707/188531432-33ee0e54-154d-4c94-bf64-1a22e5e15096.mp4

:rocket: Kimberly Neural :rocket:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/169707/188531438-dd31d946-06cd-4cca-9ac1-cfdfbfad7d04.mp4

:eyes: Salli Neural :eyes:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/169707/188531454-75aa8ad8-7e6c-4647-b689-64b33c16e950.mp4

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Tip: if you find it difficult to decide, which can be easy because both offerings are really good, listen to the minor tone variations along the speech.