Is On-Device Speech Service or Embedded Speech available for iOS as well

Question

My use cases are speech-to-text and text-to-speech on devices without internet or a hybrid.

I came across this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/embedded-speech?tabs=android-target%2Candroid&pivots=programming-language-java, and it seems that it is available for Android, but before I start that process, I wanted to confirm whether it is available for iOS as well.

And by Android, it should be able to run on the normal-handled smartphones.

Answer 1

Hi there Himanshu Bansal

Thanks for using QandA platform

I guess the embedded Speech is currently not available for iOS, it only supports Android and Linux platforms for offline speech-to-text and text-to-speech.

For iOS, your options are:

you can use native iOS APIs like SFSpeechRecognizer (STT) and AVSpeechSynthesizer (TTS) with limited offline support or build a hybrid approach: use Azure’s cloud-based Speech Service when online, and fall back to iOS native speech capabilities when offline.

As of now there’s no official word yet on iOS support for Embedded Speech from Microsoft.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/embedded-speech?tabs=macos-target%2Cjre&pivots=programming-language-csharp

If this helps kindly accept the answer thanks much.