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Azure Media Services is now available in Switzerland and Germany
Announcing the general availability of Media Services in Switzerland (North and West) and Germany (North, West Central) regions.
November 2019
Azure Media Services now supports Live Transcription in preview
Azure Media Services provides a platform which you can use to ingest, transcode, and dynamically package and encrypt your live video for delivery. Live Transcriptions is a new feature in the Azure Media Services v3 APIs, wherein you can enhance the streams delivered to your viewers with machine-generated text that is transcribed from spoken words in the audio feed.
September 2019
Public Preview - Video Indexer Multilingual identification and transcription
Automatic spoken language identification leverages machine learning technology to identify the different languages used in a media asset.
Public Preview - Video Indexer Animated Character Detection
Azure Media Services Video Indexer supports detection, grouping, and recognition of characters in animated content.
June 2019
Premium Live Encoder now supports streaming at 1080p and 30 frames per second
The Premium Live Encoder for Azure Media Services now allows you to live encode streaming content at a resolution of 1080p and up to 30 frames per second.
May 2019
Video Indexer: multiple facial recognition enhancements have been added
Video Indexer has received multiple enhancements for facial recognition scenarios.
Premium Live Encoder now supports streaming at 1080p and 30 fps
The Premium Live Encoder for Azure Media Services now allows you to live-encode streaming content at a resolution of 1080p and up to 30 frames per second.
April 2019
Video Indexer is now ISO, SOC, HiTRUST, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI certified
Video Indexer has received new certifications to fit with enterprise certification requirements.
Video Indexer has been enhanced with new features
Significant updates have been made to Video Indexer, including enhanced language customization experiences, new scene segmentation, and ending rolling credits detection models.
March 2019
Video Indexer is now ISO, SOC, HiTRUST, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI certified
Video Indexer has received new certifications to fit with enterprise certification requirements.
September 2018
Now available: Azure Media Services' Video Indexer
Azure Media Services’ AI-based media metadata extraction service is now generally available.
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