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RSS feedApril 2024
Action recommended: Prepare for model version retirement in Azure OpenAI
Action recommended: Prepare for model version retirement in Azure OpenAI
March 2024
Long Audio API will be retired on 31 March 2027 – Migrate to the new batch synthesis API
Target availability: Q1 2027
Long Audio API will be retired on March 31, 2027
Migrate to Azure AI Document Intelligence v3.1 GA version
Target retirement date: August 31, 2026
Azure AI Document Intelligence v2.0 API will be retired on 31 August 2026
Azure Content Moderator will be retired on 15 March 2027
Target retirement date: March 15, 2027
We encourage users to explore our new offering Azure AI Content Safety that offers both new and updated capabilities to meet your content moderation needs.
November 2023
Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Azure AI
Target availability: Q4 2023
Leverage integrated Azure AI services to build intelligent apps in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
October 2023
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
September 2023
AI Services Personalizer will be retired on 1 October 2026
AI Services Personalizer will be retired on 1 October 2026
Azure AI Translator S2-S4 billing instances will be retired on 1 October 2026 – transition to Commitment Tiers for discounted pricing.
Target retirement date: October 01, 2026
Retirement notice: Translator S2-S4 Volume Discount Instances will be retired on 1 October 2026
AI Services Anomaly Detector will be retired on 1 October 2026
Target retirement date: October 01, 2026
AI Services Anomaly Detector will be retired on 1 October 2026
AI Services Metrics Advisor will be retired on 1 October 2026
Target retirement date: October 01, 2026
AI Services Metrics Advisor will be retired on 1 October 2026.
Computer Vision v1.0, v2.0, v2.1, v3.0, and v3.1 APIs will be retired on 13 September 2026
Target retirement date: September 13, 2026
Migrate to Azure Computer Vision 3.2 API before 13 September 2026
Retirement: Azure AI Document Intelligence v2.0 API will be retired on 31 August 2026
Azure AI Document Intelligence v2.0 API will be retired on 31 August 2026 – Upgrade to v3.1 general availability API version
Build AI-assisted calling workflows with Azure AI Speech and Azure Communication Services
Target availability: Q3 2023
Add speech capabilities into Azure Communication Services call automation workflows with Azure AI Speech.
July 2023
Speech-to-text REST API v3.0 will be retired by 31 March 2026.
Target availability: Q1 2026
Speech-to-text REST API v3.0 will be retired by 31 March 2026. Update your code that uses Speech-to-text REST API. We recently updated the Speech-to-text REST API to version 3.1. Version 3.1 builds on the capabilities of the previous version and adds new features including language identification and multi-speaker diarization. With these enhancements, we'll retire version 3.0 of the API on 31 March 2026.
Public Preview: Vector search, a feature of Azure Cognitive Search
Target availability: Q3 2023
With Vector search, Developers can store, index, and deliver search applications over vector representations of organizational data including text, images, audio, video, and more.
June 2023
Public Preview: Azure OpenAI Service On Your Data
Target availability: Q2 2023
Introducing Azure OpenAI Service on your data in public preview, which unlocks the power of OpenAI models like ChatGPT and GPT-4 with your own data. It streamlines communication, enhances customer service, boosts productivity without training, provides access to specific data sources for accurate insights, and enables seamless data connectivity, web app deployment, and transformative conversational AI experiences.
Microsoft Azure Load Testing - additional Azure components for server-side monitoring
Azure Load Testing load testing now supports additional Azure components for server-side monitoring during a load test run.
May 2023
Announcing the public preview of custom Text Analytics for health
Target availability: Q2 2023
Custom Text Analytics for health is the newest healthcare NLP offering from Cognitive Services for Language. It allows you to add a layer of customization on top of Text Analytics for health using state-of-the-art machine learning models to build your own healthcare entity extraction model with your specific domain data. The model's authoring experience can be performed either using the graphical user interface on the Language Studio or programmatically using the REST APIs. The feature is now in public preview allowing you to make 5,000 text records of predictions per language resource for free using the Standard (S) pricing tier.
We're retiring Speech-to-text REST preview API v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023
Target retirement date: May 12, 2023
We recently made the Speech-to-text REST API version 3.1 generally available. With this release, we'll retire the preview version v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 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.
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