Yup. As an aspiring indie game dev i eagerly await large scale emotive text to speech. Being able to write a script and have it "acted" for a fraction of the cost, possibly free if i build it myself, is kinda mind blowing.
Try the demos here (and be sure to experiment with the "speaking style" parameter box, and try out the "(Neural) Preview" voices for US English): https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...