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GerritKummer-3787 asked romungi-MSFT commented

Intonation does not work correctly, when using voice: (de-DE, KatjaNeural) - Whole sentence getting changed in intonation / pitch

Please correct this problem ASAP.
While using Intonation with the Voice (de-DE, KatjaNeural) the whole sentence changes in a weird way. It doesnt matters which part of the sentence is getting modified by the intonation feature.

The whole sentence is getting high pitched and weird intonated (like setting all words to +100% intonation).
Currently the generated announcements cannot be used like this.

We first recognized this problem the last day. In the past the intonation worked normal.





Example:

In the first example only one exclamation mark is changes. Even then the Problem occures.

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Intonation:

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Second example:

First word of the first sentence got changed.

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@GerritKummer-3787 Thanks for reporting this. We are checking this internally with our team, We will get back to you soon on this.

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Today the error occurs again.
Currently, no usable voice files can be created.

In order to test this independently of the account, the SSML is inserted into the Text to Speech demo page. (https://azure.microsoft.com/de-de/services/cognitive-services/text-to-speech/)
The error also occurs here.

The error only occurs with this voice. "German (Germany) - Katja (Neural)"



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GerritKummer-3787 answered romungi-MSFT commented

@romungi-MSFT As of today, the problem no longer occurs.

Shortly after creating this question, I was unable to use the Speech Studio for about 20 minutes.
After logging in, I was shown a loading screen continuously.

After I was able to use it again, the problem no longer occurred.


The problem only occurred with this one voice. (de-DE, KatjaNeural)
And could be recreated independently of the account.
The problem even occurred on the demo page when SSML was adapted there.





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@GerritKummer-3787 Thanks for your update. I believe the intonation is now working as expected.
Could you also let us know which region was used when you observed this issue with the studio in your account?

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@romungi-MSFT used Region: Europa, Westen (Germany)

Today the error occurs again.
Currently, no usable voice files can be created.

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