Speech service documentation

Recognize speech, synthesize speech, get real-time translations, transcribe conversations, or integrate speech into your bot experiences.

Overview

What is the Speech service?

Overview

About the Speech SDK

What's new

What's new

Reference

Language support in the Speech service

Speech to text

• Get started with speech to text
• Improve accuracy with custom speech
• Use batch transcription
• More

Text to speech

• Get started with text to speech
• Improve synthesis with SSML
• Create a custom voice
• Make text to speech sound natural
• More

Scenario deep-dives

• Captioning with speech to text
• Call center overview
• Pronunciation assessment

Tools

• About Speech Studio
• About Speech CLI

Speech translation

• About speech translation
• Get started with speech translation

Azure OpenAI

• What is the Whisper model?
• What are OpenAI text to speech voices?

Hosting

• Speech service containers
• Speech service containers with Kubernetes
• Speech service containers on Azure Container Instances

Migration

• Migrate to neural voice
• Migrate to the v3.2 REST API
• Migrate to Batch synthesis REST API

Software development kits (SDKs)

Get started with the Speech SDK in your favorite programming language.

C#

C++

Java

JavaScript

Objective-C and Swift

Python

REST APIs

• Speech to text
• Batch transcription
• Text to speech
• Conversation transcription

Resources

• Pricing
• Regions
• Learn

Support

• Support and help
• GitHub issues