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Azure Speech
FreemiumMicrosoft's speech-to-text, text-to-speech and translation APIs
What is Azure Speech?
Azure Speech in Foundry Tools, formerly Azure AI Speech, provides speech recognition, neural text-to-speech, speech translation and speaker recognition as cloud APIs. Enterprises use it for call analytics, captioning and voice assistants, and it supports custom neural voices and on-premises containers.
Hundreds of neural voices in many languages can be styled with SSML, and approved customers can train a custom brand voice. Speech-to-text supports real-time and batch transcription with custom vocabulary, and Voice Live connects speech directly to agents built in Microsoft Foundry.
Features
- Neural text to speech
- Real-time and batch transcription
- Speech translation
- Custom neural voice
- Container deployment
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Pricing
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- Freemium
- Paid options from
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Azure Speech plans
Free (F0)
Free
- 5 audio hours of speech to text/month
- 0.5M characters of neural TTS/month
Speech to text
$1 / audio hour
- Standard real-time transcription
Neural text to speech
$15 / 1M characters
- Prebuilt neural voices
Prices in USD, checked Oct 28, 2026. Plans change often, so confirm on the Azure Speech site.Official pricing
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Pros and cons
Pros
- Broad feature set in one service
- Strong enterprise compliance
- Can run in containers
Cons
- Many services and names to navigate
- Custom voices need approval
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What is Azure Speech?
Azure Speech in Foundry Tools, formerly Azure AI Speech, provides speech recognition, neural text-to-speech, speech translation and speaker recognition as cloud APIs. Enterprises use it for call analytics, captioning and voice assistants, and it supports custom neural voices and on-premises containers.
How much does Azure Speech cost?
Azure Speech is freemium.
Is there a free version of Azure Speech?
Yes. Azure Speech has a free plan, and paid plans add more usage and features.
What are the main features of Azure Speech?
Neural text to speech, Real-time and batch transcription, Speech translation, Custom neural voice, Container deployment.
Who makes Azure Speech?
Azure Speech is made by Microsoft.
What are the best alternatives to Azure Speech?
Popular alternatives include Google Cloud Text-to-Speech, Amazon Polly, Amazon Transcribe.