Microsoft Speech Platform 11.0

Microsoft Speech Platform has upgraded to Version 11.0.  It includes many improvements on SR and TTS engines in the past year. 

There is a MSDN web page for more detail information about the speech platform

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh361572.asp

In particular, for TTS, there is a new voice "ZiraPro" for en-US.