I have a Python Kivy App where you can use different TTS APIs. I use the basic SSML-Tags but I want to add the Microsoft exclusive styles of the mstts:express-as attribute. Is there any way to get the available styles for each voice dynamically from the API without having to hardcode it for 50 voices?

I have a Python Kivy App where you can use different TTS APIs. I use the basic SSML-Tags but I want to add the Microsoft exclusive styles of the mstts:express-as attribute. Is there any way to get the available styles for each voice dynamically from the API without having to hardcode it for 50 voices?

• python
• azure
• text-to-speech
• azure-speech

• 1 Use the voices/list API to get available styles dynamically from the StyleList field. – Dasari Kamali Commented Mar 13 at 10:39
• I retrieved the styles list, which is available for 50 voices. – Dasari Kamali Commented Mar 13 at 11:11

1 Answer 1

I tried the below code to get the available styles for each voice from the Azure Text-to-Speech API.

I modified the line below in the code to retrieve the available styles for 50 voices without any issues.

for voice in voices[:50]:

app.py :

import requests

speech_key = "<SppechKey>"
region = "<SpeechRegion>"
endpoint = f"https://{region}.tts.speech.microsoft/cognitiveservices/voices/list"

headers = {
    "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key": speech_key
}

response = requests.get(endpoint, headers=headers)
voices = response.json()
for voice in voices:
    full_name = voice["Name"]
    short_name = voice.get("ShortName", "N/A")
    styles = voice.get("StyleList", []) 
    print(f"Full Name: {full_name}, Short Name: {short_name}")
    if styles:
        print(f"Voice: {short_name}, Styles: {', '.join(styles)}")
    else:
        print(f"Voice: {short_name}, Styles: None")

Output :

I successfully retrieved the list of styles available for 50 Text-to-Speech voices.