Add cloud TTS section to release notes

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- [Creating blueprints](#creating-blueprints)
- [Sharing blueprints](#sharing-blueprints)
- [Using blueprints](#using-blueprints)
- [Assign areas to entities](#assign-areas-to-entities)
- [New neural voices for Nabu Casa Cloud TTS](#new-neural-voices-for-nabu-casa-cloud-tts)
- [Assign areas to entities and readable area IDs](#assign-areas-to-entities-and-readable-area-ids)
- [Temporarily disable devices](#temporarily-disable-devices)
- [Other noteworthy changes](#other-noteworthy-changes)
- [New Integrations](#new-integrations)
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[Blueprint Docs](/docs/blueprint/)
## Assign areas to entities and Area IDs; making areas more useful
## New neural voices for Nabu Casa Cloud TTS
If you have a [Nabu Casa Home Assistant Cloud][cloud] subscription, this release
brings in some really nice goodness for you. The Text-to-Speech service offered
by Nabu Casa has been extended and now supports a lot of new voices in many
different languages,
This is a great alternative to, for example, the Google TTS integration. The
resulting audio is absolutely stunning and the neural voices sound supernatural.
This service is automatically enabled when you are signed in to your
Nabu Casa cloud account and can be called using the [`tts.cloud_say`][cloud_say]
service in your automations.
For example:
```yaml
action:
service: tts.cloud_say
entity_id: media_player.family_room_speaker
data:
message: These new voices sound absolutely stunning!
options:
gender: female
language: en-US
```
[cloud_say]: https://www.nabucasa.com/config/tts/
[cloud]: https://www.nabucasa.com/
## Assign areas to entities and readable area IDs
Areas have been around for a bit already. But, not everything supports
areas yet. And using it in for example YAML-based automations, is not really