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Author: Trevor Bye

articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/text-to-speech-basics.md

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+---
+title: "Speech synthesis basics - Speech service"
+titleSuffix: Azure Cognitive Services
+description: Learn how to use the Speech SDK to convert text-to-speech. In this article, you'll learn about object construction, supported audio output formats, and custom configuration options for speech synthesis.
+services: cognitive-services
+author: trevorbye
+manager: nitinme
+ms.service: cognitive-services
+ms.subservice: speech-service
+ms.topic: quickstart
+ms.date: 04/06/2020
+ms.author: trbye
+zone_pivot_groups: programming-languages-set-two
+---
+
+# Learn the basics of speech synthesis
+
+In this article, you learn common design patterns for doing text-to-speech synthesis using the Speech SDK. You start by doing basic configuration and synthesis, and move on to more advanced examples for custom application development including:
+
+* Getting responses as in-memory streams
+* Customizing output sample rate and bit rate
+* Submitting synthesis requests using SSML (speech synthesis markup language)
+* Using neural voices
+
+> [!TIP]
+> If you haven't had a chance to complete one of our quickstarts, we encourage you to kick the tires and try speech recognition out for yourself.
+> * [Recognize speech from a microphone](quickstarts/text-to-speech.md)
+
+::: zone pivot="programming-language-csharp"
+[!INCLUDE [C# Basics include](includes/how-to/text-to-speech-basics/text-to-speech-basics-csharp.md)]
+::: zone-end
+
+::: zone pivot="programming-language-cpp"
+[!INCLUDE [C++ Basics include](includes/how-to/text-to-speech-basics/text-to-speech-basics-cpp.md)]
+::: zone-end
+
+::: zone pivot="programming-language-java"
+[!INCLUDE [Java Basics include]()]
+::: zone-end
+
+::: zone pivot="programming-language-python"
+[!INCLUDE [Python Basics include](includes/how-to/text-to-speech-basics/text-to-speech-basics-python.md)]
+::: zone-end
+
+::: zone pivot="programming-language-more"
+[!INCLUDE [More languages include](./includes/how-to/speech-to-text-basics/more.md)]
+::: zone-end
+
+## Next steps
+
+* [Get started with Custom Voice](how-to-custom-voice.md)
+* [Improve synthesis with SSML](speech-synthesis-markup.md)