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Before creating an Azure personal voice or custom (professional) voice, what consent must the speaker give, which Microsoft page says it, and which of those pages is the Product Terms text?

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Microsoft's pages use different words for consent. The personal voice overview (ms.date 2026-09-09) requires explicit consent and a recorded statement from the user. The custom voice overview (ms.date 2026-09-04) requires a recording of the voice talent's consent statement before fine-tuning. The Limited Access page and the talent disclosure (both ms.date 2026-03-31) say customers warrant explicit written permission from voice talent. The Azure Product Terms (Internet Archive copies of 2025-10-10, 2026-02-26 and 2026-10-06) put the same written-permission warranty in a paragraph headed Customized TTS Services and use of Synthetic Voices, and let Microsoft require acknowledgement audio. The Product Terms list custom neural voice (later 'custom voice') as a Limited Access Service; the text read does not name personal voice, while the Limited Access Learn page does. Curator qualifications: The new claim verifies: the three Product Terms captures do not name personal voice (0 hits each), while the Learn Limited Access page does. Vocabulary differences across pages were already verified in C3R-0175 and C3R-0197 and are consistent here. The practical synthesis (collect both a recorded consent statement and written permission) is labelled synthesis. Overlaps C3R-0175 (G31-05) and C3R-0197 (G35-05); merge into one layered Azure consent record. Token absence is bounded to the three captures read. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/personal-voice-overview",
      "note": "producer work copy work/wb_azure_20251010.html.gz (curator-decoded); producer work copy work/wb_azure_20260226.html.gz (curator-decoded); producer work copy work/wb_azure_mca_20261006.html.gz (curator-decoded); Learn Limited Access page"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/custom-neural-voice",
      "note": "producer work copy work/wb_azure_20251010.html.gz (curator-decoded); producer work copy work/wb_azure_20260226.html.gz (curator-decoded); producer work copy work/wb_azure_mca_20261006.html.gz (curator-decoded); Learn Limited Access page"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/responsible-ai/speech-service/text-to-speech/limited-access",
      "note": "producer work copy work/wb_azure_20251010.html.gz (curator-decoded); producer work copy work/wb_azure_20260226.html.gz (curator-decoded); producer work copy work/wb_azure_mca_20261006.html.gz (curator-decoded); Learn Limited Access page"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/responsible-ai/speech-service/text-to-speech/disclosure-voice-talent",
      "note": "producer work copy work/wb_azure_20251010.html.gz (curator-decoded); producer work copy work/wb_azure_20260226.html.gz (curator-decoded); producer work copy work/wb_azure_mca_20261006.html.gz (curator-decoded); Learn Limited Access page"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260226122941id_/https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/productoffering/MicrosoftAzure/allprograms%5C",
      "note": "producer work copy work/wb_azure_20251010.html.gz (curator-decoded); producer work copy work/wb_azure_20260226.html.gz (curator-decoded); producer work copy work/wb_azure_mca_20261006.html.gz (curator-decoded); Learn Limited Access page"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Microsoft's pages use different words for consent. The personal voice overview (ms.date 2026-09-09) requires explicit consent and a recorded statement from the user. The custom voice overview (ms.date 2026-09-04) requires a recording of the voice talent's consent statement before fine-tuning. The Limited Access page and the talent disclosure (both ms.date 2026-03-31) say customers warrant explicit written permission from voice talent. The Azure Product Terms (Internet Archive copies of 2025-10-10, 2026-02-26 and 2026-10-06) put the same written-permission warranty in a paragraph headed Customized TTS Services and use of Synthetic Voices, and let Microsoft require acknowledgement audio. The Product Terms list custom neural voice (later 'custom voice') as a Limited Access Service; the text read does not name personal voice, while the Limited Access Learn page does. · locator: producer work copy work/wb_azure_20251010.html.gz (curator-decoded); producer work copy work/wb_azure_20260226.html.gz (curator-decoded); producer work copy work/wb_azure_mca_20261006.html.gz (curator-decoded); Learn Limited Access page source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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