Sonos Azure TTS neural voices not working?

Plugins & Plugin Development Sonos
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@rigpapa I have Azure TTS working in Sonos 2.0 Many thanks!
I live in Holland and there is only 1 standard voice in my language = Dutch, female. But the lady speaks a bit too fast…
I found some other neural voices on their website (3 in Dutch) and they sound much better. But I can’t get them to work in the Sonos plugin. I choose for “user supplied/custom value” and used the abbreviations on the Azure website like “nl-NL-ColetteNeural”
But I hear nothing…
Is it possible to use neural voices ?
And if not, can I somehow change the speed ? I remember with ResponsiveVoice you could change the speed and tone of voices.

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Neural voices are not available in all regions. You may need to change your region to get access to them.

See: Text-to-speech API reference (REST) - Speech service - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Learn

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Hi @rigpapa,

I know you said you didn’t want to chase neural voices because they were a moving target, but I thought I would let you know what I see.

I am on 2.0-hotfix20314.1625

I am set to a server (eastus) that supports neural, but there is no audio produced, and the log shows a received zero length response. I don’t believe it is an issue with my Azure service or settings, because “standard” voices work reliably with no issues.

Thanks again for everything,