Azure AI Speech
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Azure AI Speech, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Azure AI Speech's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| 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 · Speech Translation Standard: 5 audio hours free/month |
| Pay as You Go | Priced on request | Pay only for what you use · Text-to-speech billed per character |
| Pay as You Go | — | Pay only for what you use · Text-to-speech billed per character |
The facts
Each one read from Azure AI Speech's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API access
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Core service
- Azure Speech provides APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, translation, and speaker recognition.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Custom voice and avatars
- Users can build custom neural voices and use prebuilt or custom avatars with natural-sounding voices.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Export formats
- wav,mp3checked 20 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Microsoft lists Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Foundry, Azure Content Understanding, Azure Translator, and Azure Language as related products.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The product is presented for developers building voice-enabled apps, multilingual generative AI applications, and intelligent agents.checked 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.checked 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.checked 11 Oct 2026
- SDKs
- Speech capabilities are offered through SDKs in programming languages including C#, C++, and Java.checked 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.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support resources
- Microsoft provides Azure Speech tutorials, API references, sample code, and SDKs.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Text to speech
- Text-to-speech supports customized, realistic voices and speaking styles for bots.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Transcription
- Speech-to-text can transcribe call center or meeting conversations and provide audio captioning in more than 100 languages.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Translation
- The service supports real-time multilingual speech-to-speech translation and transcription of audio streams.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Voice agents
- It supports voice-enabled agents using foundation models and customized audio-in and audio-out models.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Voice cloning
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
The company
- Founded
- 1975checked 23 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Redmond, Washington, United Stateschecked 23 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- web,apichecked 20 Sep 2026
