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Convert audio to text, perform speech translation and text-to-speech with the unified Speech services

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Speech to Text – Converts spoken audio to text for intuitive interaction

Easily add real-time speech-to-text capabilities to your applications for scenarios like voice commands, conversation transcription, and call center log analysis.

Tailor your speech recognition models to adapt to users’ speaking styles, expressions, and unique vocabularies, and to accommodate background noises, accents, and voice patterns.

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Speech To Text

Text to Speech – Give natural voice to your apps

Build smart apps and services that speak to users naturally with the Text to Speech service. Convert text to audio in near real time, tailor to change the speed of speech, pitch, volume, and more.

Give your application a one-of-a-kind, recognizable brand voice using custom voice models. Simply record and upload training data, and the service will create a unique voice font tuned to your recording.

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Text to Speech

Speech Translation

Give your app real-time speech translation capabilities in any of the supported languages and receive either a text or speech translation back. Speech Translation models are based on leading-edge speech recognition and neural machine translation (NMT) technologies. They're optimized to understand the way people speak in real life and generate translations of exceptional quality.

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Speech Translation

Business scenarios built on Speech Services

Easily transcribe every call and optimize results through batch transcription and custom speech services enhanced for call center scenarios. Index call transcriptions for full-text search, or apply text analytics to detect sentiment, language, and key phrases for insights.

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Business Speech Services
"We are impressed with the initial transcription accuracy of Custom Speech and Speaker Recognition. We are now working to optimise for a live environment which would be breakthrough for British Telecom Sport versus the current manual process."

Kevin Blyth, British Telecom Research and Innovation

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Speech Services

Unified speech services for speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech translation

Speaker Recognition

Use speech to identify and verify individual speakers

Speech Translation

Easily integrate real-time speech translation to your app

Speech to Text

Convert spoken audio to text for more natural interactions

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Convert text to speech to create more natural, accessible interfaces

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