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Documentation question: Does Microsoft Stream transcription on SharePoint use Azure AI Speech?

Hello, I'm working on a research project that requires me to accurately describe the technology stack used for transcription within Microsoft 365, and I'm hoping you can help me clarify a technical question that I have not been able to confirm through…

Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
asked 2026-05-05T02:38:37.7733333+00:00
Catherine M. Stockdale 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-05-05T15:51:27.0333333+00:00
SRILAKSHMI C 18,035 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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What dialect of Irish are the speech studio text to speech models (Colm and Orla) modeled after?

I am interested in learning more about Speech Studio's text to speech models for the Irish language. Currently, there are two available voices on the platform (Colm and Orla) which are labelled under Irish (Ireland). The Irish language does not have an…

Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
asked 2026-05-05T12:22:29.87+00:00
Sean McGoff 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-05-05T12:22:38.9566667+00:00
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Next practical step is an Azure Support request for Speaker Recognition gated access for subscription?

One blocker remains, and it is on Azure’s side: the live Speaker Recognition smoke test returns 401 Unauthorized saying the subscription is not approved for the gated Speaker Recognition service. The resource/key are valid enough to exist and be mounted,…

Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
asked 2026-04-30T20:58:48.1566667+00:00
Lucy Noble 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-05-01T06:38:35.2833333+00:00
Anshika Varshney 9,985 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Joanne, the Australian female voice

Hi there, My name is Jacqui, and I use an eyegaze system with voice output due to living with severe Cerebral Palsy, a physical disability, and I’m non-verbal. I’ve been searching for an updated Australian female voice for over two years now. I’ve had…

Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
asked 2025-08-31T05:57:23.24+00:00
Jacqui Rogers 20 Reputation points
commented 2026-04-30T16:27:03.9533333+00:00
Georgia Kate Haege 0 Reputation points
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What is Azure equivalent for input_audio_noise_reduction ?

We have moved from OpenAI deployed Realtime Mini 4o to Azure deployed Realtime 4o Mini. In OpenAI we had input_audio_noise_reduction property. But this property is not available in Azure deployment. What is the Azure OpenAI equivalent of this property?

Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
asked 2026-04-28T10:41:37.26+00:00
Divjot Singh 20 Reputation points
commented 2026-04-30T05:24:24.7733333+00:00
Anshika Varshney 9,985 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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The v1 real-time STT endpoint returns a constant Confidence value of 0.039347406 for all NBest results globally.

The v1 real-time Speech-to-Text endpoint (/speech/recognition/{mode}/cognitiveservices/v1) returns a fixed Confidence value of 0.039347406 in the NBest array for every recognition result, regardless of audio quality, region, resource type, or SDK…

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asked 2026-04-23T13:50:50.8333333+00:00
OneReachAdmin-8533 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-04-30T05:18:35.8466667+00:00
Anshika Varshney 9,985 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Test: Azure Speech Service Not Available in Foundry Tools

Question: I’m attempting to use Azure Speech services through Foundry tools, but the option does not show up or fails during setup. Details: Azure Speech resource is active Using Foundry Tools interface No clear error message, just missing or…

Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
asked 2026-04-28T21:01:13.8433333+00:00
Abhinava Maddha 105 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
accepted 2026-04-28T21:01:33.2066667+00:00
Abhinava Maddha 105 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Azure Cognitive Services TTS fails to generate audio for certain Unicode characters (e.g., em dash, arrow symbols)

I'm using Azure Cognitive Services Text-to-Speech (via SSML) to generate audio from text content. Some Unicode characters cause the TTS engine to fail or produce no audio output, while others in the same Unicode block work correctly. Characters that…

Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
asked 2026-04-23T18:55:50.31+00:00
Pawel Pelka 20 Reputation points
accepted 2026-04-28T17:17:42.65+00:00
Pawel Pelka 20 Reputation points
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Significant Regression in Code-Switching (EN-ZH) recognition for zh-HK after April 2026 Engine Update

Problem Description We are reporting a critical regression in the Cantonese (zh-HK) Speech-to-Text service that started occurring after the March 31, 2026 API retirement and the subsequent rollout of the latest engine (MAI-Transcribe-1). The Issue:…

Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
asked 2026-04-22T11:53:03.27+00:00
Peter Ng 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-04-28T17:09:38.6833333+00:00
Karnam Venkata Rajeswari 2,385 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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Microsoft Foundry Speech Playground shows "Connection error to Realtime service: Invalid response status"

I had been using the "gpt-4o-realtime-preview" speech-to-speech model in the past months without issues. However since a few days it stopped working, not just in my python project but even in the Microsoft Foundry > Speech Playground: When I…

Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
asked 2026-04-19T15:15:09.15+00:00
Phil Nylund 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-04-28T13:53:31.5733333+00:00
SRILAKSHMI C 18,035 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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Specifying a model in TranscriptionOptions of TranscriptionClient

Hi I am using a code similar to the one found in: link However when I specify a model in TranscriptionOptions options = TranscriptionOptions( locales=["en-US"], enhanced_mode=enhanced_mode, models={ "en-US":…

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asked 2026-04-22T04:51:08.1066667+00:00
Roy Aad 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-04-25T07:39:49.2866667+00:00
SRILAKSHMI C 18,035 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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Azure Speech Fast Transcription concurrency and autoscaling question

Hello Azure Support, We are preparing to test Azure Speech Fast Transcription and want to understand the service limits so we can configure our KEDA scaler and Azure Service Bus concurrency correctly. Could you please clarify: What is the actual…

Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
asked 2026-04-24T15:54:47.28+00:00
Morales, Roberto (TR Product) 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-04-24T17:42:22.4433333+00:00
SRILAKSHMI C 18,035 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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Is it expected that add_target_language() silently drops translations when language codes overlap (e.g. en + en-US, fil + fi)?

Is it expected that add_target_language() silently drops translations when language codes overlap (e.g. en + en-US, fil + fi)? I've encountered an issue where certain combinations of target languages in TranslationRecognizer cause translations to…

Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
asked 2026-04-14T07:06:40.2+00:00
Chi Hsun Wang 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-04-24T15:33:25.4833333+00:00
SRILAKSHMI C 18,035 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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Random Words Detected by Azure Speech Recognizer in Silence

Hello Azure Support Team, I am currently using the Azure Speech Service to recognize speech inputs in my application. The setup of my speech recognizer is as follows: export const createSpeechRecognizer = () => { const speechRecognitionConfig =…

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asked 2024-06-24T07:44:54.3933333+00:00
Abdul Subhan 10 Reputation points
commented 2026-04-24T09:03:09.7666667+00:00
Greg Woods 46 Reputation points
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Interactive/Live Avatar not Showing Hand Movements

I recently trained and deployed a Custom Avatar using Azure Speech Studio. I had trained the avatar using videos in which there was significant hand movements. To test the avatar, I first checked it in the Text To Speech Avatar section where I gave a…

Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
asked 2026-04-16T05:46:52.4433333+00:00
DARSHIL SHAH7 80 Reputation points
accepted 2026-04-24T05:46:53.81+00:00
DARSHIL SHAH7 80 Reputation points
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Azure Speech Ingestion client not processing audio input

Hello, I deployed the speech ingestion client via ARM template, when uploading the first wav file into the audio-input directory I received an error saying that the service wasn't valid for the free tier, so I updated my subscription and the batch…

Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
asked 2026-04-17T12:31:01.6466667+00:00
PCS Dev 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-04-23T17:18:50.21+00:00
SRILAKSHMI C 18,035 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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How to estimate pricing (training + compute) for a custom tts avatar?

We want to create a custom avatar in Speech Studio. Of course, we need to estimate the costs for this project. We need the custom avatar + custom voice. Azure Pricing (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/speech/) is a bit confusing. For the…

Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
asked 2026-04-17T07:43:02.3566667+00:00
Manuel Tospann 336 Reputation points
commented 2026-04-23T17:16:52.3433333+00:00
SRILAKSHMI C 18,035 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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Unnable to create speech service (Azure for students subscription)

im getting the error about regions from a policy 'Resource 's...' was disallowed by Azure: This policy maintains a set of best available regions where your subscription can deploy resources. The objective of this policy is to ensure that your…

Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
asked 2026-04-20T13:27:23.7266667+00:00
Isaac Mukiri 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-04-22T09:19:01.7133333+00:00
SRILAKSHMI C 18,035 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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How to use azure tts by websocket api rather than sdk?

I would like to use the Azure TTS input text streaming capability, as described in this documentation:…

Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
asked 2026-04-03T17:52:06.4933333+00:00
datou ai 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-04-21T16:04:53.8366667+00:00
Pavankumar Purilla 11,495 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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It seems that there is a gc bug in the azure speech python sdk, how to solve it?

I would like to use the Azure TTS input text streaming capability, as described in this documentation:…

Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
asked 2026-04-05T05:14:59.8166667+00:00
datou ai 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-04-15T18:02:24.45+00:00
Karnam Venkata Rajeswari 2,385 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator