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Software und Technik allein könnten nicht mehr ausreichend Schutz bieten. Microsoft will deshalb auch menschliche Expertise anbieten. (Microsoft, Security)
Quelle: Golem
Software und Technik allein könnten nicht mehr ausreichend Schutz bieten. Microsoft will deshalb auch menschliche Expertise anbieten. (Microsoft, Security)
Quelle: Golem
Every Wednesday, Nick Chase and Eric Gregory from Mirantis go over the week’s cloud native and industry news. This week they discussed: Google donating Istio to the CNCF Netlify creating an edge content creation tool The release of Node.js 18 Tests of Esperanto’s new RISC-V AI chip Elon Musk and Twitter Log4Shell vulnerabilities A recent … Continued
Quelle: Mirantis
Azure Neural Text to Speech (Azure Neural TTS), a powerful speech synthesis capability of Azure Cognitive Services, enables developers to convert text to lifelike speech using AI. Enterprises and agencies utilize Azure Neural TTS for video game characters, chatbots, content readers, and more. The Azure Neural TTS product team is continuously working on bringing new voice styles and emotions to the US market and beyond.
New voice styles and emotional tones
We received feedback from customers that more voice options would help them better apply Azure Neural TTS to different user scenarios. In addition, supporting voice emotions and voice styles would help deliver the most engaging experience to end-users. With that feedback, we decided to add five new neural voices in US-English, expanding from 15 to 20. This includes two female voices—Jane and Nancy—and three male voices—Davis, Jason, and Tony. We also expanded to eight emotional tones for many of our existing and new voices, including cheerful, angry, sad, excited, hopeful, friendly, unfriendly, and terrified. Finally, to improve spatial experiences, we added shouting and whispering.
Listen to how they sound
New voices
Voices
Gender
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Jane
Female
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Davis
Male
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Jason
Male
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Nancy
Female
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Tony
Male
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New emotions
Style
Sample (male)
Same (female)
Excited
Audio
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Hopeful
Audio
Audio
Friendly
Audio
Audio
Unfriendly
Audio
Audio
Terrified
Audio
Audio
New ways to project
Style or emotion
Sample (male)
Sample (female)
Shouting
Audio
Audio
Whispering
Audio
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We encourage you to try the new voices and emotions. Feedback is encouraged to help inform which voices will be made for General Availability in all regions, depending on customer satisfaction. “By supporting more voice options and expanding voice styles, Azure Speech continues to address the unmet needs of the customers to build more delightful speech experience," said Binggong Ding, Principal Group Product Manager of the Microsoft Speech team.
See the full list of US-English voices here.
Three ways customers are using this
Content reading is a popular use case for AI customers using Azure Neural TTS. Microsoft has plugins to enable Read Aloud across the web. This use case also supports improved accessibility for customers with vision challenges. The new voice style, supported by ten different emotional tones creates endless possibilities for improving the customer experience. Scaling character voice production is accelerated by Azure Neural TTS. Video game characters with lifelike voices can be trained quickly to bring your virtual worlds to life and delight gamers. Emotional tones for being terrified and friendly help add more personality to the game experiences. Long gone are the days of frustrating voice assistants and chatbots, as now you can deliver lifelike conversational experiences. Call centers can scale operations while also improving customer satisfaction.
Featured customers
Undead Labs is on a mission to take gaming in bold new directions. They are the makers of the State of Decay franchise and use Azure Neural TTS during game development. Double Fine, who has produced many popular games, including Psychonauts 2, is utilizing our neural TTS to prototype future game projects. Remixd (recently acquired by Global) uses Azure Neural TTS including Jenny and Davis voices for one of its music radio media clients.
International reach
Engage global audiences by using more than 340 neural voices across 129 languages and variants. Bring your scenarios like text readers and voice-enabled assistants to life with highly expressive and human-like voices.
Neural TTS and Responsible AI
We are excited about the future of Azure Neural TTS with human-like, diverse and delightful quality under the high-level architecture of XYZ-Code AI framework. Our technology advancements are also guided by Microsoft’s Responsible AI process, and our principles of fairness, inclusiveness, reliability and safety, transparency, privacy and security, and accountability. We put these ethical standards into practice through the Office of Responsible AI (ORA), which sets our rules and governance processes, the AI Ethics and Effects in Engineering and Research (Aether) Committee, which advises our leadership on the challenges and opportunities presented by AI innovations, and Responsible AI Strategy in Engineering (RAISE), a team that enables the implementation of Microsoft Responsible AI rules across engineering groups.
Get started
Start building new customer experiences with Azure Neural TTS. In addition, the Custom Neural Voice capability enables organizations to create a unique brand voice in multiple languages and styles.
Resources
Try the demo.
Read the Tech Community blog post.
Get started with Azure Neural Text to Speech.
Quelle: Azure
Join us to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Azure Static Web Apps! Come connect with others in the developer community and increase your Azure Static Web Apps skills in a fun, collaborative way.
It's hard to believe that it was just under a year ago that we announced the general availability of Azure Static Web Apps.
Azure Static Web Apps service became generally available in May 2021, with support for many of the popular front-end frameworks and static site generators used for modern web app development.
A turnkey service for modern full-stack web apps with pre-built and pre-rendered static front-ends, and serverless API backends, Azure Static Web Apps focuses on making the developer experience—from build-to-deploy—effortless for modern web apps. Azure Static Web Apps is a power-packed solution to globally host websites, providing a seamless experience through features like continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), preview environments, global scalability, customizable authentication integrations, managed Azure edge, custom domains, and much more.
Fast forward a year and we are days away from the one-year anniversary (#SWAanniversary), making this a perfect time to reflect on the journey so far and get excited about what's coming up next.
So join us on May 19, 2022, and hear from keynote speakers like Scott Hanselman and Donovan Brown, along with our product team and Microsoft MVPs, in a one-and-a-half-hour event streaming live on Learn TV. If you’re unable to catch the live event, it will be available on-demand to stream anytime.
Visit the event page to check out the speaker lineup and add the event to your calendar.
Learn with #30DaysOfSWA
New to Azure Static Web Apps? Do you want to learn the core concepts, see usage examples, explore developer tools, and understand best practices for building richer user experiences with Azure Static Web Apps?
Check out the 30DaysOfSWA series and jumpstart your learning journey with a whole month of short articles that provide a curated tour of Azure Static Web Apps as we go from code to scale.
We've organized the journey into four stages, each building on the previous one in a way that mimics the developer experience with any new technology:
Week 1: Focus on core concepts, learning terminology, and getting setup.
Week 2: Focus on usage examples with quickstarts and front-end technologies.
Week 3: Focus on dev tools to develop, debug, test, and deploy, the Azure Static Web Apps.
Week 4: Focus on best practices, from services to end-to-end experiences.
It is said it takes 30 days to form a habit and we hope these daily activities with #30DaysOfSWA will help you on the journey to becoming a seasoned Azure Static Web Apps developer.
Learn more
Sign up now for the Azure Static Web Apps anniversary event.
Here are a few links to kickstart your Azure Static Web Apps journey:
Azure Static Web Apps documentation.
Azure Static Web Apps learning path.
Azure Static Web Apps gallery.
Quelle: Azure
This blog post has been co-authored by Sharlene Jerome, Manager of Marketing and Communications, Sensoria Health
This blog is part of a series in collaboration with our partners and customers leveraging the newly announced Azure Health Data Services. Azure Health Data Services, a platform as a service (PaaS) offering designed exclusively to support Protected Health Information (PHI) in the cloud, is a new way of working with unified data—providing care teams with a platform to support both transactional and analytical workloads from the same data store and enabling cloud computing to transform how we develop and deliver AI across the healthcare ecosystem.
According to the World Health Organization, over 422 million people suffer from diabetes. Diabetes is an emergency of epidemic proportions, and diabetic foot complications have one of the most painful effects—every 20 seconds, someone in the world loses a lower limb due to diabetes. The total worldwide cost of diabetic limb complications is estimated to be $46 billion, and in the US, direct costs associated with these complications exceed the cost of each of the five most expensive cancers.¹
From these staggering numbers, it is now obvious that connected footwear will play a major role in the future of diabetic care. As one of the most innovative applications of IoT in healthcare, remotely monitoring patients is essential to ensuring effective treatment, improving patient care, and reducing hospital readmission rates. This requires data to flow smoothly from patient to clinician, and from clinician to clinician. However, the currently siloed healthcare industry with data stored on-premises and lack of interoperability among these on-premises systems makes it difficult for clinicians to access data in a timely manner to proactively treat patients. And when diabetic foot ulcers can potentially cause the loss of limbs, the stakes are remarkably high for all parties involved.
Making real-world data accessible
To help better manage data in the cloud and enable healthcare organizations to access patient data in a timely and secure manner, Microsoft released Azure Health Data Services, a PaaS offering that is built on the global open standards Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR ®) and Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine (DICOM).
One of the biggest challenges in treating diabetic foot ulcers is the ability to monitor the patient’s progress when they are outside of the hospital. The inaccessibility of this data prevents clinicians from collaborating with patients to ensure they adhere to the clinical recommendations, thus reducing the effectiveness of treatment and care. With Azure Health Data Services, this data can now be accessed easily and in a timely manner by providers, giving patients the best chance to fight diabetic foot ulcers. Microsoft’s technology, alongside Sensoria’s innovative diabetic footwear, will enable the creation of a new category of solutions for podiatrists, which will not only provide valuable feedback to and from patients but also supply clinicians with the patient’s compliance and usage patterns for healing diabetic foot ulcers, supporting the goal of reducing the risk of occurrence.
As leaders in remote patient monitoring wearables and AI software solutions, Sensoria Health is already leveraging FHIR and Azure Health Data Services.
“There is no such thing as a "little" diabetes. Just like there is no such thing as a "little" cancer.”–Dr. David Armstrong, Professor of Surgery and Director, Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA) at Keck School of Medicine, USC and Director, USC Center to Stream Healthcare in Place (#C2SHiP)
Sensoria’s diabetic footwear is a wonderful example of how Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) health data can be leveraged to improve clinical workflows and process valuable data to support both patient and clinician while making individualized care plans. Supported by Microsoft’s Azure Health Data Services, IoMT health data can be ingested from the Sensoria footwear and compiled to attain a valuable holistic view of a patient’s at-home care, knowledge of self-care, and care plan compliance. The IoMT health data coming from the footwear can be de-identified, compiled, and stored in Azure Health Data Services. Microsoft Azure Health Data Services is HITRUST CSF certified and helps organizations store PHI in accordance with HIPAA and GDPR requirements and meet Office for the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandates. Once stored in a standardized and interoperable format, the health data can be trended and tracked to visualize patterns and catch early warnings or allow for further analysis to support clinicians and treatment options. Sensoria Health leverages Azure IoT Central to connect the footwear and bring valuable IoMT data to the cloud—Azure Health Data Services helps manage IoMT data collected by the footwear to support the clinician for a more complete view of patient population, treatment compliance, daily treatment adherence scores, real-time behavioral feedback, and capture previous gaps in care and best practice.
Powered by Sensoria Core, a wearable sensor platform that is modular, self-contained, and fully integrated to provide highly accurate data, the Sensoria Diabetic Foot Ulcer Boot can measure adherence to whether the patient is wearing the boot, their level of activity, and adherence to the recommended clinician protocol. The clinician dashboard provided by the Sensoria Diabetic Foot Ulcer Boot offers a holistic view of their patient population. The dashboard is color-coded so that clinicians know which patients are at most risk due to non-adherence. In these cases, there is an escalation of care that can be identified, and the boot can be made irremovable.
Sensoria Health is excited to be a pioneer of this effort with global diabetic footwear partners such as Ossur, DARCO International, and Defender Operations.
“In the US, CMS is embracing remote patient monitoring and launching a new reimbursement model for remote therapeutic monitoring. Our partnership with Sensoria Health will place both of our companies in a leadership position for smart podiatry footwear products around the globe.”—Darrel Darby, CEO, DARCO International
“Combining Foot Defender® with the Sensoria ® Core is the marriage of modern manufacturing, advanced textiles, cutting edge engineering, and advanced electronics. Uniting these two leading-edge technologies produces a product that patients will want to wear and can assist them in monitoring activity and utilization, engaging patients in their care while empowering them to make changes in behavior.”—Dr. Jason Hanft, DPM, FACFAS, CEO and Founder, Defender
Do more with your data with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare
Part of the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, Azure Health Data Services empowers health organizations to transform their patient experience, discover new insights with the power of machine learning and AI, and manage PHI data with confidence.
We look forward to being your partner as you build the future of health.
Learn more about Azure Health Data Services.
Learn more about Sensorial Health, or send a message to info@sensoriahealth.com.
Read our recent blog, “Microsoft launches Azure Health Data Services to unify health data and power AI in the cloud.”
Learn more about Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.
®FHIR is a registered trademark of Health Level Seven International, registered in the U.S. Trademark Office and are used with their permission.
¹ WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Global report on diabetes. 1. Diabetes Mellitus – epidemiology. 2. Diabetes Mellitus – prevention and control. 3. Diabetes, Gestational. 4. Chronic Disease. 5. Public Health. I. World Health Organization. ISBN 978 92 4 156525 7 (NLM classification: WK 810) © World Health Organization 2016 9789241565257_eng.pdf;jsessionid=27AFE586B882A75AA68600E65BD3E049 (who.int)
Quelle: Azure
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) veröffentlicht ab sofort Nutzungsmetriken in Amazon CloudWatch, sodass sie diese mit den kontoweit geltenden Service-Limits vergleichen können. Die Nutzungsmetriken helfen Ihnen, den Verbrauch besser einzuschätzen und zu verwalten und Sie werden alarmiert, sobald sich der Verbrauch den festgelegten Service-Limits nähert. Unterstützt werden 11 Service-Limit-Metriken: AllocatedStorage, DBInstances, DBClusters, DBSecurityGroups, ReservedDBInstances, DBClusterParameterGroups, DBParameterGroups, ManualSnapshots, ManualClusterSnapshots, DBSubnetGroups, OptionGroups.
Quelle: aws.amazon.com
AWS Audit Manager ermöglicht ab sofort die Verwendung von benutzerdefinierten Regeln aus AWS Config, um in Audit Manager benutzerdefinierte Kontrollen zu definieren. Benutzer von Audit Manager konnten bereits vorgefertigte, verwaltete Regeln importieren. Jetzt können sie auch die bestehenden Custom-Config-Regeln nutzen und diese Compliance-Prüfungen direkt melden. Dazu müssen sie ihr AWS-Config-Konto über ihre bevorzugte Methode der Config-Einrichtung aktivieren.
Quelle: aws.amazon.com
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus iist nun in der Region Europa (London) verfügbar. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus ist ein vollständig verwalteter Prometheus-kompatibler Überwachungsservice, der die Überwachung und Warnung auf Betriebsmetriken in großem Maßstab einfach macht. Prometheus ist ein beliebtes Open-Source-Projekt der Cloud Native Computing Foundation zur Überwachung und Benachrichtigung, das für Containerumgebungen optimiert ist.
Quelle: aws.amazon.com
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) ist jetzt in der Region Asien-Pazifik (Jakarta) verfügbar. Mit dieser regionalen Erweiterung wird die weltweite Verfügbarkeit von ACM Private CA ausgeweitet und die Anzahl der Regionen, in denen ACM Private CA verfügbar ist, steigt auf 24. Die Region Jakarta unterstützt CAs, bei denen der private Schlüssel in einem FIPS 140-2 Level 2 HSM gespeichert ist. Weitere Informationen über die Zertifizierungsstufe des Schlüsselspeichers finden Sie in der Dokumentation zu AWS Private CA.
Quelle: aws.amazon.com
Amazon QuickSight unterstützt jetzt 10 000 Datenpunkte für Liniendiagramme. Mit diesem Update wurde die Leistung von Liniendiagrammen verbessert, sodass nun 10 000 Datenpunkte unterstützt werden, während vorher nur 2 500 Datenpunkte möglich waren, und es wurden weitere kleinere Fehler behoben.
Quelle: aws.amazon.com