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Azure AI Speech
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Free (F0) | 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 | Free |
| Pay as You Go | Pay only for what you use · Text-to-speech billed per character | On request |
| Pay as You Go | Pay only for what you use · Text-to-speech billed per character | On request |
As azure.microsoft.com lists them, read 11 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from Azure AI Speech's own pages
- API access
- Yes · azure.microsoft.com, 20 Sept 2026
- Core service
- Azure Speech provides APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, translation, and speaker recognition. · azure.microsoft.com, 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, 11 Oct 2026
- Export formats
- wav,mp3 · azure.microsoft.com, 20 Sept 2026
- Founded
- 1975 · azure.microsoft.com, 23 Sept 2026
- Free plan
- Yes · azure.microsoft.com, 20 Sept 2026
- Headquarters
- Redmond, Washington, United States · azure.microsoft.com, 23 Sept 2026
- Integrations
- Microsoft lists Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Foundry, Azure Content Understanding, Azure Translator, and Azure Language as related products. · azure.microsoft.com, 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, 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, 11 Oct 2026
- Platforms
- web,api · azure.microsoft.com, 20 Sept 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, 11 Oct 2026
- SDKs
- Speech capabilities are offered through SDKs in programming languages including C#, C++, and Java. · azure.microsoft.com, 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, 11 Oct 2026
- Support resources
- Microsoft provides Azure Speech tutorials, API references, sample code, and SDKs. · learn.microsoft.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Text to speech
- Text-to-speech supports customized, realistic voices and speaking styles for bots. · azure.microsoft.com, 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, 11 Oct 2026
- Translation
- The service supports real-time multilingual speech-to-speech translation and transcription of audio streams. · azure.microsoft.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Voice agents
- It supports voice-enabled agents using foundation models and customized audio-in and audio-out models. · azure.microsoft.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Voice cloning
- Yes · azure.microsoft.com, 20 Sept 2026
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