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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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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It implements accurate voice analysis which can be improved with customised speech models
  • Affordable
  • Doesn't have to be run online/ can be run and stored locally
  • It can be quite difficult to set up
  • Speech recognition is occasionally inaccurate
  • It sometimes struggles with non-native English speakers' accents
Johnson Martins | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Supportive data integration functions.
  • Simple adaptation to all functionalities.
  • I really love the speed of data migration with this platform.
  • The initial training when new to this software is an essential process.
  • Tracking a huge amount of recording history.
  • Collective multiple reports and evaluation is a turf operation.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • APIs offered are very robust.
  • Languages supported is far greater than most of its competitors.
  • Integration with our custom apps was easy.
  • Speech models that we created using neural voices were quite impressive.
  • Translation services worked really well.
  • Built in machine learning opens it to a lot more business use cases for the future.
  • At times different accents can be an issue but over time with more data, this can be further improved esp with reinforcement learning.
  • Price is on the higher side so ROI is slow to realise.
  • For community development, perhaps some of its source code could be open-sourced for further engagement and development as the overall community is small.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The free version provides up to five hours of audio and allows you to create one custom voice model per month.
  • Microsoft's language processing system justifies the cost of the software - it recognizes even faint and distorted sound in many cases.
  • It works with many languages and dialects which helps understand many speeches.
  • The software is not user-friendly- it has a complicated interface and requires a lot of training to set up.
  • The pricing is also costly - so for an individual user, not on a company plan, this is not affordable.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Accurate speech-to-text
  • Realistic 'voice' when using text-to-speech
  • Customisable 'voices' for text-to-speech
  • Occasionally, words in text-to-speech are not pronounced correctly
  • Sometimes the speech recognition is inaccurate
  • We have many non-native English speakers in our organisation, and the speech recognition occasionally struggles to understand certain words spoken in different accents
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Deployment is easy since its available on the cloud.
  • It is directly as a service and no expertise in AI or ML is needed by the development team.
  • Security of data since Azure promises that it does not store the data of the customers that is used by the service.
  • More support for India regional languages and the ability to interpret Indian dialect.
  • More detailed documentation with more coded examples to be available.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easily leverage the available APIs even with the free version.
  • Accurate speech to text.
  • Local languages are supported.
  • Pricing is costly, it seems MS is forcing you to opt with the premium version since you can only use worth five hours of free translations.
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