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Azure Speech in Foundry Tools

Energize your apps and agents with prebuilt, customizable, multilingual speech AI models.
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OVERVIEW

Discover the latest Azure Speech capabilities

  • Build voice-enabled, multilingual generative AI apps with fast transcriptions and natural-sounding voices.
  • Enable AI agents with end-to-end speech, including customized transcription, voice, and avatars.
  • Enable real-time, multi-language speech-to-speech translation and speech-to-text transcription of audio streams.
  • Run AI models wherever your data resides. Deploy your apps in the cloud or at the edge with containers.
USE CASES

Develop multimodal generative AI apps with speech models

Build voice-enabled agents

Use foundation models along with customized audio-in and audio-out models to power agents with voice.
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Transcribe speech to text

Transcribe call center or meeting conversations. Go global with audio captioning in more than 100 languages.
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Convert text to speech

Build bots that speak naturally. Differentiate your brand with customized, realistic voices and speaking styles.
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Use post-call analytics

Analyze audio or video call recordings to gain deep insights using foundation models in Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools.
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Transcribe audio with OpenAI Whisper

Transform your call centers using the latest OpenAI Whisper model in Azure Speech or Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models.
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Build custom voices

Build natural-sounding voices with custom neural voice.
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Build your avatars

Bring your brand to life using prebuilt or custom avatars with natural-sounding voices.
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Enable multilingual communication

Translate audio or video data from and into an ever-growing list of supported languages. Customize translations to your industry.
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Embed speech

Use embedded speech to power on-device speech-to-text and text-to-speech scenarios where cloud connectivity is intermittent or unavailable.
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Security

Embedded security and compliance

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Pricing

Flexible pricing to meet your needs

Pay for only what you use—no upfront costs. Azure Speech pay-as-you-go pricing is based on:
  • The number of hours of audio you transcribe or translate for speech to text and speech translation.
  • The number of characters you convert to audio for text to speech.
  • The number of transactions for speaker recognition.
Azure Speech pricing

Azure OpenAI

Incorporate multimodality and enhance apps with models that combine multiple types of data, such as text, images, video, and audio.
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Microsoft Foundry

Get everything you need to develop generative AI applications and custom agents on one platform.
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Content Safety in Foundry Control Plane

Deliver secure and trustworthy solutions with built-in tools that put responsible AI principles into practice.
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Azure Content Understanding

Accelerate the transformation of multimodal data into insights.
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Azure Translator

Translate documents and text in real-time or in batches across more than 100 languages for global reach.
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Azure Language

Build conversational interfaces, summarize documents, and analyze text using prebuilt AI-powered features.
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CUSTOMER STORIES

See what customers are building with Azure Speech

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RESOURCES

Get started with Azure Speech

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Explore Azure Speech documentation

Discover resources such as tutorials and API references.
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Build voice-enabled apps

Design and build enterprise-grade, voice-enabled apps.
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GitHub resources

Explore sample code and SDKs.
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Start building now

Build models quickly in Foundry.
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Azure Speech learning paths

Develop natural language processing solutions with Azure.
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Create agentic AI

Integrate AI agents into apps seamlessly and learn advanced model fine-tuning techniques.
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Find the best AI model

Enable multimodal models, model selection, and benchmarking, and create multimodal applications.
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Secure and responsible AI

Understand the fundamentals of AI security, evaluations, and managing harmful content.
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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

  • Azure Speech is part of Foundry Tools (formerly Azure AI Services) and provides APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, translation, and speaker recognition. It was previously known as Azure AI Speech.

  • Yes, we’re rebranding many of our former Azure AI Services as Foundry Tools. This shift reflects a broader platform unification under Foundry, and signals that these services are now positioned as core tools for building agentic AI applications.

    Azure Speech in Foundry Tools still offers the same powerful capabilities—like speech recognition, text-to-speech, and translation—but is now part of a cohesive toolkit designed for developers building intelligent agents.


    The rebrand helps clarify how these APIs fit into the Foundry ecosystem and makes it easier to discover, orchestrate, and integrate them into modern AI workflows.

  • Azure Speech offers a number of features and capabilities, including speech to text, text to speech, and speech translation. These are offered through SDKs in several programming languages, including C#, C++, and Java.
  • Speech supports an ever-growing set of languages. For supported languages, please refer to the current list.
  • Customers are building interesting applications using Foundry Tools. Get started with Azure Speech for use cases including conversational AI, post-call analytics, and video summarization.
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