What is Azure Speech Service?

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 ...