{"@odata.context":"https://relcomms-prod-dagnegedescbeefs.b02.azurefd.net/api/v2/$metadata#Azure/$entity","id":"563491","productCategories":["AI + machine learning"],"tags":["Microsoft Build","Feature"],"products":["Microsoft Foundry"],"generalAvailabilityDate":"2026-06","previewAvailabilityDate":null,"privatePreviewAvailabilityDate":null,"title":"Generally Available: Self-serve custom photo avatar creation in Microsoft Foundry","description":"Microsoft Foundry brings self-serve custom photo avatar creation to GA in the Foundry NextGen fine-tuning portal. Enterprise customers building voice agents with avatars or producing content with avatar and speech often need a branded avatar instead of a standard one, but until now the only path ran through a manual white-glove engagement that was slow and dependent on internal teams. With this release, customers create custom photo avatars directly in the portal through a guided self-serve workflow, integrated alongside other model customization capabilities in NextGen fine-tuning. Teams iterate on a brand-aligned avatar in hours rather than weeks and deploy to production scenarios such as customer-facing voice agents and interactive training content, removing the bottleneck that limited avatar creation to a small number of partners.&nbsp;<br><br><a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/text-to-speech-avatar/custom-avatar-create\">Learn more</a>.","status":"Launched","created":"2026-06-03T20:45:02.6170860Z","modified":"2026-06-03T20:45:02.6170860Z","locale":null,"availabilities":[{"ring":"General Availability","year":2026,"month":"June"}]}