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Azure AI Speech

Azure AI Speech
Formerly Azure Cognitive Speech Services

Overview

What is Azure AI Speech?

The Azure AI Speech service provides a range of speech recognition and generation capabilities including speech transcription, text-to-speech and speech translation. It provides a range of speech recognition and generation capabilities including speech transcription, text-to-speech, speech translation, and speaker recognition.

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Pricing

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $1 per month
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Product Details

What is Azure AI Speech?

The Speech service is the unification of speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and speech-translation into a single Azure subscription. It's speech capabilities enable applications, tools, and devices with the Speech CLI, Speech SDK, Speech Devices SDK, Speech Studio, or REST APIs.

Services include:

Speech to Text - Transcribe audio in more than 92 languages and variants. Gain customer insights with call center transcription, improve experiences with voice-enabled assistants, and capture key discussions in meetings.

Text to Speech - Create apps and services that speak conversationally, choosing from more than 215 voices, and 60 languages and variants. Create natural-sounding audio content, improve accessibility with read-aloud functionality, and create custom voice assistants.

Speech Translation - Translate audio from more than 30 languages and customize translations for organization's specific terms in a preferred programming language.

Speaker Recognition - Confirm a person's identity or recognize who's speaking in a meeting by adding speaker verification and identification to an app.

Custom Commands - Users can build a touchless, voice-first experience to improve safety and support back-to-work scenarios.

Custom Keywords - Custom keyword for IoT devices and voice-enabled assistants to set your brand apart—making it more personal, personable, and secure.

Azure AI Speech Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

The Azure AI Speech service provides a range of speech recognition and generation capabilities including speech transcription, text-to-speech and speech translation. It provides a range of speech recognition and generation capabilities including speech transcription, text-to-speech, speech translation, and speaker recognition.

Azure AI Speech starts at $1.

The most common users of Azure AI Speech are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Increased accessibility of our lectures for students
  • Reduced the time required by lectures to introduce CC captions to remote lectures during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • The platform provides solutions for project information and easy management of client contacts.
  • Reliable tools for quick reporting and the predictive data offered are quite relevant.
  • Multiple data migration and easy to schedule through the platform.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Although it takes time our apps powered by speech services gave us good ROI.
  • Made our products stand out in finance, hr and operations functions.
  • Gave much-needed AI-powered machine learning integration through NLP offered by azure.
  • Our chat assistants became more user friendly and thus UX increased.
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