What is Azure Speech Service?
Explore Azure Speech Service to understand its core capabilities such as real-time speech-to-text conversion, text-to-speech synthesis, and speech translation. Learn how to create a speech resource in Azure and apply these features to build smart assistants, voice-enabled chatbots, and transcription services for call centers.
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Introduction
In recent years, voice-enabled applications are becoming really popular. Some of the popular voice-enabled applications are Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, etc. This is due to the fact that the application becomes easier to use and can perform the actions by just listening to voice commands. But building such an application could be a tedious task. This is where the Azure Speech Service comes into play.
The Azure speech service provides many functionalities such as converting the real-time speech to text, converting the text to speech, performing real-time translation of the speech, and so on.
Use cases
Let’s explore some of the use cases for Azure ...