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Azure AI Speech
Azure AI Speech · Redmond, Washington, United States · founded 1975
Plans and prices
Free (F0)
Free
Speech to Text Standard: 5 audio hours free/month · Speech to Text Custom: 5 audio hours free/month, shared with Standard · Custom endpoint hosting: 1 model free/month · Neural Text to Speech: 0.5 million characters free/month
Read 11 Oct 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
Pay as You Go
Priced on request
Pay only for what you use · Text-to-speech billed per character
Read 20 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
On the record
- API access
- Yesazure.microsoft.com · read 20 Sep 2026
- Core service
- Azure Speech provides APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, translation, and speaker recognition.azure.microsoft.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Custom voice and avatars
- Users can build custom neural voices and use prebuilt or custom avatars with natural-sounding voices.azure.microsoft.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Export formats
- wav,mp3azure.microsoft.com · read 20 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Microsoft lists Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Foundry, Azure Content Understanding, Azure Translator, and Azure Language as related products.azure.microsoft.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The product is presented for developers building voice-enabled apps, multilingual generative AI applications, and intelligent agents.azure.microsoft.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Offline and edge
- Embedded speech supports on-device speech-to-text and text-to-speech when cloud connectivity is intermittent or unavailable, and apps can be deployed at the edge with containers.azure.microsoft.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Pricing basis
- Pay-as-you-go charges are based on transcribed or translated audio hours, text-to-speech characters, and speaker-recognition transactions.azure.microsoft.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- SDKs
- Speech capabilities are offered through SDKs in programming languages including C#, C++, and Java.azure.microsoft.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Security and compliance
- The product page says Microsoft has more than 100 compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.azure.microsoft.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Support resources
- Microsoft provides Azure Speech tutorials, API references, sample code, and SDKs.learn.microsoft.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Text to speech
- Text-to-speech supports customized, realistic voices and speaking styles for bots.azure.microsoft.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Transcription
- Speech-to-text can transcribe call center or meeting conversations and provide audio captioning in more than 100 languages.azure.microsoft.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Translation
- The service supports real-time multilingual speech-to-speech translation and transcription of audio streams.azure.microsoft.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Voice agents
- It supports voice-enabled agents using foundation models and customized audio-in and audio-out models.azure.microsoft.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Voice cloning
- Yesazure.microsoft.com · read 20 Sep 2026
