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Realtime Transcription - OpenAI API vs. Azure OpenAI Compatibility
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I'm looking to use OpenAI's Realtime Transcription (realtime.transcription_session) within Azure OpenAI. While I found resources for realtime conversations using Azure's gpt-4o-realtime SDK, I haven't found anything specific to transcription. Is it supported?
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SRILAKSHMI C 11,290 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator2025-04-10T14:42:02.87+00:00 The Azure OpenAI GPT-4o Realtime API is primarily built to support low-latency conversational interactions, such as those used in customer support agents or voice assistants. However, based on the current Azure documentation, there is no explicit support for dedicated transcription functionalities, such as OpenAI’s
realtime.transcription_session.While the API can handle real-time interactions, it does not currently provide a native, integrated audio-to-GPT transcription workflow. Therefore, if you are attempting to replicate the full transcription experience similar to OpenAI’s native capabilities, this functionality is not yet natively supported in Azure OpenAI.
Please refer this GPT-4o Realtime API for speech and audio (Preview).
I hope this helps. Do let me know if you have further queries.
Thank you!
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SRILAKSHMI C 11,290 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
2025-04-14T08:38:20.4733333+00:00 Following up to see if the above suggestion was helpful. And, if you have any further query do let us know.
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SRILAKSHMI C 11,290 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
2025-04-15T09:02:03.1966667+00:00 We haven’t heard from you on the last response and was just checking back to see if you have a resolution yet. In case if you have any resolution please do share that same with the community as it can be helpful to others. Otherwise, will respond with more details and we will try to help.
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Christian Saiki 10 Reputation points2025-06-03T00:00:18.8633333+00:00 @Anonymous is this still the case?
Because I see that you are able to create transcription_sessions via the REST API
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/reference-preview#create---transcriptionrealtimesession
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