Give Your Copilot Studio Agent a Voice — Text-to-Speech with DirectLine Web Chat
When you embed a Copilot Studio agent on a webpage using DirectLine and the Bot Framework Web Chat control, it works great — but it’s text only. What if your agent could speak its responses out loud? In this post, I’ll show you how to intercept bot responses from the Web Chat store middleware and pass them to a text-to-speech engine so your agent speaks every reply in the browser. The pattern works with any TTS provider — the browser’s built-in Web Speech API, Azure Speech Services, ElevenLabs, or anything else. ...