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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.
Cognitive Services Custom Commands feature is being retired on April 30, 2026
Target retirement date: April 30, 2026
Custom Commands voice commanding solution will be retired on 30 April 2026.
March 2023
Public preview: Azure Cognitive Service for Vision Powers State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Development
Extract robust insights from images and video content across multiple industry domains
February 2023
Public Preview: Azure Communication Services Chat for Bot Framework
Build conversational AI experiences with Azure Communication Services. Use virtual chat agents to manage growing customer service needs and provide in-chat intelligence with the help of smart assistants.
November 2022
General availability: Multivariate Anomaly Detection
Multivariate Anomaly Detection will allow you to evaluate multiple signals and the correlations between them to find sudden changes in data patterns.
October 2022
Public preview: Computer Vision Image Analysis 4.0
Get results from all Image Analysis visual features including Read (OCR) with only need one API call.
September 2022
Migrate to conversational language understanding before Language Understanding (LUIS) is retired on 1 October 2025
Target retirement date: October 01, 2025
Language Understanding (LUIS) will be retired on 1 October 2025
August 2022
Retirement of Computer Vision API v3.2 previews
Target retirement date: January 30, 2023
Migrate your workloads to Computer Vision API v3.2 GA before 30 January 2023.
July 2022
Responsible AI investments and safeguards for Facial Recognition
Target retirement date: July 01, 2023
The Cognitive Services team has updated our approach to facial recognition including adding a new Limited Access policy, removing AI classifiers of sensitive attributes and bolstering our investments in fairness and transparency.
June 2022
Generally available: Azure NC A100 v4 virtual machines for AI
Perfect for a range of AI workloads, this new virtual machines series can give you a significant performance boost over our previous NC generation series.
General availability: Conversational language understanding
Conversational language understanding includes multilingual transformer-based models as the underlying model architecture and results in significant accuracy improvements over its predecessor, LUIS.
May 2022
Public preview: Azure Cognitive Services updates
Azure Cognitive Services is announcing the following preview updates at Build: Azure OpenAI Service and summarization capabilities in Azure Cognitive Service for Language.
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