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September 2023

Sep 15

Retirement: Azure AI Document Intelligence v2.0 API will be retired on 31 August 2026

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure AI Document Intelligence v2.0 API will be retired on 31 August 2026 – Upgrade to v3.1 general availability API version

  • Retirements
Sep 6

Build AI-assisted calling workflows with Azure AI Speech and Azure Communication Services

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

Add speech capabilities into Azure Communication Services call automation workflows with Azure AI Speech.

  • Services
  • SDK and Tools

July 2023

Jul 26

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.

  • Azure AI Speech
  • SDK and Tools
Jul 18

Public Preview: Vector search, a feature of Azure Cognitive Search

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Features

June 2023

Jun 27

Public Preview: Azure OpenAI Service On Your Data

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure OpenAI Service
  • Services
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
Jun 13

Microsoft Azure Load Testing - additional Azure components for server-side monitoring

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Load Testing load testing now supports additional Azure components for server-side monitoring during a load test run.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features

May 2023

May 23

Announcing the public preview of custom Text Analytics for health

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Features
May 12

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.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Retirements
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features

April 2023

Apr 26

Continuous Language ID in Azure Speech Service

NOW AVAILABLE

Continual Language ID makes transcription and translation easier by identifying up to 10 languages in a single piece of audio continuously.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features
Apr 21

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.

  • Azure AI Speech
  • Retirements

March 2023

Mar 14

Public preview: Azure Cognitive Service for Vision Powers State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Development

IN PREVIEW

Extract robust insights from images and video content across multiple industry domains

  • Azure AI Advantage
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features

February 2023

Feb 15

Public Preview: Azure Communication Services Chat for Bot Framework

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • SDK and Tools

November 2022

Nov 9

General availability: Multivariate Anomaly Detection

NOW AVAILABLE

Multivariate Anomaly Detection will allow you to evaluate multiple signals and the correlations between them to find sudden changes in data patterns.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Features

October 2022

Oct 12

Public preview: Computer Vision Image Analysis 4.0

IN PREVIEW

Get results from all Image Analysis visual features including Read (OCR) with only need one API call.

  • Azure AI Vision
  • Services
  • Features

September 2022

Sep 30

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

  • Language Understanding (LUIS)
  • Conversational language understanding
  • Retirements

August 2022

Aug 5

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.

  • Retirements

July 2022

Jul 15

Responsible AI investments and safeguards for Facial Recognition

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Video Indexer
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Compliance
  • Retirements
  • Features

June 2022

Jun 1

Generally available: Azure NC A100 v4 virtual machines for AI

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Regions & Datacenters
Jun 1

General availability: Conversational language understanding

NOW AVAILABLE

Conversational language understanding includes multilingual transformer-based models as the underlying model architecture and results in significant accuracy improvements over its predecessor, LUIS.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features

May 2022

May 24

Public preview: Azure Cognitive Services updates

IN PREVIEW

Azure Cognitive Services is announcing the following preview updates at Build: Azure OpenAI Service and summarization capabilities in Azure Cognitive Service for Language.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build

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