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Retirement notice: Bing Speech will be retired on 3 November 2023
Target retirement date: November 03, 2023
Migrate from Bing Speech to Speech Services and the Speech SDK by 3 November 2023
April 2023
Continuous Language ID in Azure Speech Service
Continual Language ID makes transcription and translation easier by identifying up to 10 languages in a single piece of audio continuously.
June 2021
Introducing the Ingestion Client for Azure Speech
Ingestion Client in conjunction with Azure Speech allows customers to transcribe audio files without any development effort. Whether you have few or millions of file Azure will transcribe those securely and quickly.
June 2020
Azure Speech Services REST API v3.0 is now available
Azure Azure Speech Services REST API v3.0 is now available, along with several new features.
February 2020
Cognitive Services Bing Speech API is being retired 1st November 2021
Target retirement date: November 01, 2021
To continue providing speech recognition and translation capabilities in your current Bing Speech applications, you will need to migrate them to Speech Services and the Speech SDK
November 2019
Migrate from Bing Speech to Speech Services and the Speech SDK by 14th January , 2020
Target retirement date: January 14, 2020
We’re extending the Bing Speech retirement date to 14th January, 2020.
October 2019
Azure Media Indexer is being retired
Target retirement date: January 01, 2023
A year ago we announced the general availability of Azure Video Indexer, which is built on the capabilities of Azure Media Analytics, Azure Search and Cognitive Services. This enables you to extract a rich set of machine learning insights based on multiple channels of your media files, all integrated together in one call and on a shared timeline.
September 2018
Azure Cognitive Services—Speech Service now generally available
Speech service is now generally available, combining the following capabilities in one service: speech-to-text; text-to-speech; custom speech; and speech translation.
May 2018
Microsoft Cognitive Services | Microsoft Speech Services
Microsoft Speech Services, with an important set of updates, lets you access speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and speech translation APIs in one unified offer on the Azure portal.
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