# Configure third-party speech providers in Connect Customer
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You can configure third-party speech-to-text (STT) and text-to-speech (TTS) providers in Connect Customer to expand language coverage, improve recognition accuracy, and deliver more expressive synthesized speech. This section describes how to configure third-party STT providers for bots and third-party TTS providers for use in contact flows.

**Topics**
+ [Configure third-party speech-to-text (STT) providers](configure-third-party-stt.md)
+ [Configure third-party text-to-speech (TTS) providers](configure-third-party-tts.md)
+ [Endpoints and Regions for third-party STT providers](endpoints-regions-third-party-stt.md)
+ [Managing secrets and resource policies](managing-secrets-resource-policies.md)