Intonation and(+plus) Rate does not work correctly for last 3 days

Serhat AHÇI 21

Please correct this problem ASAP. INTONATION NOT WORKING WITH RATE SPEED SETTING.
I am really enjoying the audio content creation so far, but I got to ask a question as there seems to be a problem within the audio content creation page.
I am especially using neural voices, but for the last few days, I am adjusting the RATE first, then INTONATION to make the pronounciation better like real speech, but as I am ADJUSTING THE INTONATION, THE RATE JUST GOES TO THE BASE TO 1.00. And also, when adjusting the INTONATION, IF I HAVE A RATE SET BEFORE, IT DOES NOT PREVIEW THE ADJUSTED INTONATION. I have been having this problem for some 3-5 days, and it seems like some kind of n annoying problem as I can't create the voices I have been for the last few weeks. I would appreciate if you can correct this problem. Thank you so much.

Serhat AHÇI 21 Reputation points

2021-01-16T12:08:46.663+00:00

also when making intonation on half of the sentence, intonation works but it resets the speed rate to base level.

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romungi-MSFT 43,691 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-01-18T13:12:27.383+00:00
@Serhat AHÇI I have tested the tool with the scenarios you mentioned and it seems like you can't overlap the rate and the intonation using the settings or slider. This may or may not be the intended functionality. However, I have tried this with the SSML and it seems to be persistent. I think this is a workaround case because the tool is still undergoing many changes as we speak.

<speak xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis" xmlns:mstts="http://www.w3.org/2001/mstts" xmlns:emo="http://www.w3.org/2009/10/emotionml" version="1.0" xml:lang="en-US"><voice name="Microsoft Server Speech Text to Speech Voice (en-US, AriaNeural)"><prosody rate="-50.00%">Hello there. </prosody><prosody contour="(58%, +36%) (70%, +91%) (80%, +81%) (85%, +39%)" rate="-90.00%">This is a test sentence.</prosody></voice></speak>

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romungi-MSFT 43,691 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-01-18T13:15:00.723+00:00

@Serhat AHÇI If this works for you we can run this scenario with the engineering team and seek their feedback to review the scenario. Thanks!!
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Serhat AHÇI 21 Reputation points

2021-01-18T16:39:33.76+00:00

Hi sir, first of all thank you very much for your helping attitude :)
I am going to be mention about the problem again with a more accurate and deep explanation via images.
And beware (especially the tech team) that this problem has been occurring only for 4 or 5 days.
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Serhat AHÇI 21 Reputation points

2021-01-18T16:46:57.697+00:00

Pic 1 : Sentence put, Voice set, Rate set to 0.85
Pic 2 : part of the sentence selected, rate is ok at 0.85, clicked on intonation
Pic 3 : intonation screen pops-up, intonations set with 2 points
* click original >> pronounce fine at 0.85 speed with no intonation
* click preview >> pronounce WITH INTONATION BUT AT RATE 1.00 !!!
Pic 4 : rate line goes away, intonation works fine at original 1.00 rate, rest of the sentence pronounces at 0.85 speed
Pic 5 : can not set the rate of the part of the sentence to 0.85 !!?? (PREVIOUS SET), and neither setting to another speed (like 0.84 in the image) does work, THE WHOLE SENTENCE PRONOUNCES AT RATE THAT IS SET WITH NO INTONATION AT ALL.

romungi-MSFT 43,691 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-01-19T13:06:26.687+00:00

@Serhat AHÇI Thanks for the detailed screen shots. We will pass this to our team for review.
I believe in your scenario you can still use the workaround to set part of the sentence to different rates from the SSML directly instead of the tool. The sample provided above should help you to set one or you can edit the SSML directly to set the rates at different parts.

romungi-MSFT 43,691 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-01-20T13:44:28.647+00:00

@Serhat AHÇI Our team is working on a fix for this issue. A fix is expected to be rolled out soon to studio portal. I will update this thread as soon as we have an update. Thanks!!

Serhat AHÇI 21 Reputation points

2021-01-21T15:11:03.293+00:00

Hi sir. Thank you very much for your interest and help. The AUDIO CONTENT CREATION page is working again without problem. This is a very revolutionary step in speech translation I think, and will be looking for new and exciting updates in the future. Thanks again, to you and also your team.
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