I don't know anything about Microsoft's Azure AI, but I bet similar diy methods of delivering weather reports using AI could be achieved for free.
Sanoma uses Azure AI Speech Service for low-cost, automated weather forecasts https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/24454-sanoma-azure-ai-speech
"... Sami Virtanen, Sanoma’s Content Insight Strategist for radio, says that while the company was keen to offer more locally focused forecasts, the business case for doing so was not strong enough.
“It would have been quite expensive, having all these separate weather departments,” he says.
But things changed radically last year when its two radio stations began airing local forecasts across 26 different regions, three times a day—all using AI technology from Microsoft. “We are now producing 78 additional forecasts a day, quickly and efficiently, for an audience of up to 200,000 people,” Virtanen says.
Each forecast is read by a lifelike synthetic voice created using the text-to-speech feature Custom Neural Voice (CNV), part of Azure AI Speech Service. Sanoma also uses Azure OpenAI’s GPT-4o to prepare the reports with data from the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
“There was such a large volume of regional weather data that it would be a full-time job to manage it all manually,”..."