Speech translation
Easily integrate real-time speech translation to your app.
Enable multilingual communication
Translate audio from more than 30 languages and customize your translations for your organization’s specific terms—all in your preferred programming language.
Production-ready
Benefit from fast, reliable speech translation powered by neural machine translation technology.
Customizable translations
Tailor models to recognize domain-specific terminology and unique speaking styles.
Normalized text
Deliver readable translations with an engine trained to normalize speech output.
Built-in security
Your data stays yours—your speech input is not logged during processing.
Add high-quality translations to your apps
Generate speech-to-speech and speech-to-text translations with a single API call. Speech Translation captures the context of full sentences to provide accurate, fluent translations and improve communication between speakers of different languages.
Tailor translations to reflect domain-specific terminology
Normalize text for better translations
Speech Translation can remove verbal fillers ("um," "uh," and coughs) and repeated words, add proper punctuation and capitalization, and exclude profanities for more readable translations.
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Privacy and security
The Speech service, part of Azure Cognitive Services, is certified by SOC, FedRamp, PCI, HIPAA, HITECH, and ISO.
View or delete any of your custom translator data and models at any time. Your data is encrypted while it’s in storage.
You control your data. Your audio input and translation data are not logged during audio processing.
Backed by Azure infrastructure, the Speech service offers enterprise-grade security, availability, compliance, and manageability.
Comprehensive security and compliance, built in
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Microsoft invests more than $1 billion annually on cybersecurity research and development.
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We employ more than 3,500 security experts who are dedicated to data security and privacy.
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Azure has more certifications than any other cloud provider. View the comprehensive list.
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Flexible pricing gives you the power and control you need
Pay only for what you use, with no upfront costs.
With Speech Translation, you pay as you go, based on hours of audio translated.
Get started with an Azure free account
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After your credit, move to pay as you go to keep building with the same free services. Pay only if you use more than your free monthly amounts.
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Documentation and resources
Get started
Read our documentation.
Take the Microsoft Learn course.
Explore code samples
Check out our sample code.
See customization resources
Customize your speech solution with
Speech Studio. No code required.