Merge pull request #226480 from sally-baolian/patch-96

Language learning overview

Author: Stacyrch140

articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/language-learning-overview.md

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+---
+title: Language learning with Azure Cognitive Service for Speech
+titleSuffix: Azure Cognitive Services
+description: Azure Cognitive Services for Speech can be used to learn languages.
+services: cognitive-services
+author: sally-baolian
+manager: nitinme
+ms.service: cognitive-services
+ms.subservice: speech-service
+ms.topic: conceptual
+ms.date: 02/23/2023
+ms.author: eur
+---
+
+# Language learning with Azure Cognitive Service for Speech
+
+The Azure Cognitive Service for Speech platform is a comprehensive collection of technologies and services aimed at accelerating the incorporation of speech into applications. Azure Cognitive Services for Speech can be used to learn languages.
+
+
+## Pronunciation Assessment
+
+The [Pronunciation Assessment](pronunciation-assessment-tool.md) feature is designed to provide instant feedback to users on the accuracy, fluency, and prosody of their speech when learning a new language, so that they can speak and present in a new language with confidence. For information about availability of pronunciation assessment, see [supported languages](language-support.md?tabs=pronunciation-assessment) and [available regions](regions.md#speech-service).
+
+The Pronunciation Assessment feature offers several benefits for educators, service providers, and students. 
+- For educators, it provides instant feedback, eliminates the need for time-consuming oral language assessments, and offers consistent and comprehensive assessments. 
+- For service providers, it offers high real-time capabilities, worldwide Speech cognitive service and supports growing global business. 
+- For students and learners, it provides a convenient way to practice and receive feedback, authoritative scoring to compare with native pronunciation and helps to follow the exact text order for long sentences or full documents.
+
+## Speech-to-Text 
+
+Azure [Speech-to-Text](speech-to-text.md) supports real-time language identification for multilingual language learning scenarios, help human-human interaction with better understanding and readable context.
+
+##  Text-to-Speech
+
+[Text-to-Speech](text-to-speech.md) prebuilt neural voices can read out learning materials natively and empower self-served learning. A broad portfolio of [languages and voices](language-support.md?tabs=tts) are supported for AI teacher, content read aloud capabilities, and more. Microsoft is continuously working on bringing new languages to the world. 
+
+
+[Custom Neural Voice](custom-neural-voice.md) is available for you to create a customized synthetic voice for your applications. Education companies are using this technology to personalize language learning, by creating unique characters with distinct voices that match the culture and background of their target audience. 
+
+
+
+## Next steps
+
+* [How to use pronunciation assessment](how-to-pronunciation-assessment.md)
+* [What is Speech-to-Text](speech-to-text.md)
+* [What is Text-to-Speech](text-to-speech.md)
+* [What is Custom Neural Voice](custom-neural-voice.md)

articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/overview.md

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 - [Captioning](./captioning-concepts.md): Learn how to synchronize captions with your input audio, apply profanity filters, get partial results, apply customizations, and identify spoken languages for multilingual scenarios.
 - [Audio Content Creation](text-to-speech.md#more-about-neural-text-to-speech-features): You can use neural voices to make interactions with chatbots and voice assistants more natural and engaging, convert digital texts such as e-books into audiobooks and enhance in-car navigation systems.
 - [Call Center](call-center-overview.md): Transcribe calls in real-time or process a batch of calls, redact personally identifying information, and extract insights such as sentiment to help with your call center use case.
+- [Language learning](language-learning-overview.md): Provide pronunciation assessment feedback to language learners, support real-time transcription for remote learning conversations, and read aloud teaching materials with neural voices.
 - [Voice assistants](voice-assistants.md): Create natural, humanlike conversational interfaces for their applications and experiences. The voice assistant feature provides fast, reliable interaction between a device and an assistant implementation.
 
 Microsoft uses Speech for many scenarios, such as captioning in Teams, dictation in Office 365, and Read Aloud in the Edge browser. 

articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/toc.yml

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-              displayName: pronounce, learn language, assess pron
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+      - name: Pronunciation Assessment with speech to text
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       href: https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/cognitive-services-compliance-and-privacy/
     - name: Privacy and cookies
-      href: https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement
+      href: https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement