Whats the reason Free Tier - Speech to Text - Speech Translation - Continuous recognition - After n recognitions the canceled event is executed?

Question

I am relatively new using cognitive services speech to text. At the beginning we were using this service (speech to text) and for the translation of the speech to text we were using the translation api. But we start experimenting some issues with the response time and this affected the user experience. So, in order to improve this experience i started to implement speech translation that perform all this operation (speech recognition and translation) at the same time.

Our application translate the recognized text into 66 different languages, we are using the SpeechSDK from javascript to achieve this. At the beginning all works smoothly, but after n requests (This is random) the canceled event is executed. I tried to get the errors logs from this event but the error code is always 0 and the error details is undefined. So i am not sure what is happening, that the reason i am asking here for help.

At the moment we have the Free Tier for the speech service, maybe this issue is related to that and we should update the tier to standard? Is this possible?

Now, standard tier says that we have to pay $ 2.5 per hour. How is it work? Do we have to pay this all the time or this is by request by hour?

Answer 1

Hello @Melvin Vega

Thanks for reaching out to us, there are possible two reasons you can have a check:

1 - the quotas and limitations: there are quotas and limitations for Speech Service, below document mentioned all the limitations.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/speech-services-quotas-and-limits#speech-to-text-quotas-and-limits-per-speech-resource

2 - the limitation of pricing tier - I will give the free tier limitation, please take a look:

For your question "Now, standard tier says that we have to pay $ 2.5 per hour. How is it work? Do we have to pay this all the time or this is by request by hour?"

The price you pay is regarding to your audio hour, you will pay $2.5 for every audio hour you input to Speech Service.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Yutong

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