Bing Speech API

Convert audio to text, understand intent, and convert text back to speech for natural responsiveness

Speech Recognition

Convert spoken audio to text. The API can be directed to turn on and recognize audio coming from the microphone in real-time, recognize audio coming from a different real-time audio source, or to recognize audio from within a file. In all cases, real-time streaming is available, so as the audio is being sent to the server, partial recognition results are also being returned.

The Speech to Text API enables you to build smart apps that are voice triggered. To see how it works select your target language then click on the microphone and start speaking. Or simply click on one of the sample speech phrases to see how speech recognition works. When you use this demo you consent to providing your voice input data to Microsoft for service improvement purpose

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To try out the demo with your own voice using a microphone, please change to a different browser with WebRTC support, for example a recent version of Microsoft Edge, Firefox or Chrome.

By uploading data for this demo, you agree that Microsoft may store it and use it to improve Microsoft services, including this API. To help protect your privacy, we take steps to de-identify your data and keep it secure. We won’t publish your data or let other people use it.

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Text to Speech

Convert text to spoken audio. When applications need to “talk” back to their users, this API can be used to convert text that is generated by the app into audio that can be played back to the user.

The Text-To-Speech API enables you to build smart apps that can speak. You can test it now, simply choose your target language, add your sentences then click on the play button to see how speech synthesis works. When you use this demo you consent to providing your voice input data to Microsoft for service improvement purposes.

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