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Azure Mekdes Neural

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Azure Mekdes Neural is a closed-weights text-to-speech model from Microsoft, released October 2021.

Catalogue identity notes

Exact model am-ET-MekdesNeural; voice am-ET-MekdesNeural. Dataset label Azure Mekdes Neural. No API immutable build/weight SHA supplied.

Model information sources

Release date ↗

50.2±15.8comparison only: no current run option verifiedfrom 1 benchmark result across 1 source* thinly tested, treat the rank as provisional

Score within the Vapi Humanness · Bradley–Terry rating, 2026-09-25 snapshot comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The text-to-speech models ranked either side of Azure Mekdes Neural, out of 148 with a score, then more from Microsoft.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
80Eleven Multilingual v2 ElevenLabs51±5api $100.00/M chars2023-08
81Azure Ameha Neural Microsoft50±16comparison only2021-10
82Azure Mekdes Neural Microsoft50±16comparison only2021-10
83Addis Voice 2 Addis AI50±16comparison only
84LEMAS-TTS (w/o prosody, multilingual_grl) LEMAS Project50±6local~1.4GB2026-01
more from Microsoft
70VibeVoice 1.5B Microsoft53±6local~5.4GB2025-08
140SpeechT5 TTS Microsoft23±3local~0.7GB2023-02

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$ what it's good at

other tests1 not in a task · 0.2% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Amharic TTS · 87-prompt CER (Chirp 3 judge)4.1% ✎▄·····▄·▄·██ beats 4/6avg 8.7%▇ 0.2%blunt · noisy

$ where to run it

No verified API or download recorded yet · add one

$ how the score was worked out · Addis AI Amharic TTS benchmark 0%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
Addis AI Amharic TTS benchmark1▇ 0%CC BY-SA 4.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 100%
weighted average= 50.2

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