Melissa Ma, a Senior PM in the Azure product group, talks to us about the new Pronunciation Assessment service and SDK which makes it easy to build linguistic applications that can provide the user with realtime feedback on their speech.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode390.mp3  YouTube: https://youtu.be/SdGeTmJtORw Resources:  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/how-to-pronunciation-assessment?pivots=programming-language-java https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1379625676815325642-pearson-education-azure-cognitive-services https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-ai/speech-service-update-pronunciation-assessment-is-generally/ba-p/2505501 The Speech SDK supports pronunciation assessment, which assesses the pronunciation quality of speech input, with indicators of accuracy, fluency, completeness, etc.docs.microsoft.com   Other updates: General availability: GitHub Codespaces How to re-size Azure virtual networks that are peered—now in preview Azure Blob storage - Inventory generally availability Upgrade to Text-to-Speech Neural Voice  by 31 August 2024