Is Azure AI Speech practically deprecated to Edge TTS?
As you may be aware, Microsoft is providing some of Azure AI Speech services for free in some system services in Windows 11 and some Microsoft software (including Microsoft Edge). More than a year ago, someone reverse engineered that Edge protocol and…
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Azure Speech Studio is exporting more files than shown.
Something has changed with this recently. While I am seeing 6 files in the speech studio, when exporting, I am getting 8. Longer files are suddenly being split into multiple files. Is there a way to turn this off/change it back? I'm having to go into…
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Azure Speech Studio – Text to Speech behavior change regarding paragraph blocks
Azure Speech Studio – Text to Speech behavior change regarding paragraph blocks Previously, when using Azure Speech Studio (Text to Speech) with plain text input, each text block separated by blank lines was treated as an independent paragraph and…
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Speech Studio Text to Speech - Silence Not Working
I'm trying to add silence in my text to speech files (see image below), but the silence tags will not actually generate the specified silence where I input them when I preview the audio. The silence doesn't show up in the exported output either. Am I…
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Sound only for real time synthesis, WebRTC and azure speech services
Hello, Is there a way to have WebRTC with the audio azure speech services here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/how-to-speech-synthesis ? There is the webrtc connection with the avatar synthesis as documented here:…
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Custom Speech model training fails when using audio
hi ; We are encountering a failure when training a Custom Speech (Speech-to-Text) model with audio and transcription. Could you help me How to handle with this issue ? (this is the link to our dataset https://drive.google.com/file/d/****sharing) Best…
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Intermittent InvalidOperation Errors (Code 7) and WebSocket Closures in Azure Speech SDK - Speech Recognition
Issue Description We encountered intermittent InvalidOperation errors (code 7) in our Azure Speech transcriber during live voice calls: { "privSessionId": "AFA323B7326A4AA093EB1303A2EFBE96", "privReason": 0, …
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Spoken punctuation and ITN inconsistencies — “period” transcribed as word, “Doctor” not normalized to “Dr.”, date formats inconsistent, and missed punctuation
Summary We’re seeing multiple accuracy issues with Azure Speech Recognition for dictation:- Spoken punctuation commands like “period”, “paragraph”, and “parenthesis” are sometimes transcribed literally instead of converted to punctuation, while “comma”…
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High egress/bandwidth usage with Batch Transcription contentUrls - Does the service download files multiple times?
Hi everyone, I’m working with the Azure AI Speech Batch Transcription API and running into an issue with unexpected bandwidth consumption. Setup: We are submitting transcription jobs using the contentUrls property, pointing to audio files hosted on our…
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Azure Speech Transcription Get File operation always gives expired SAS token
Following doc https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/speechtotext/transcriptions/get-file?view=rest-speechtotext-2025-10-15&tabs=HTTP, I am trying to get a transcription file using the below command GET…
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Validation error at speech resource creation
Hello, I have a student subscription. I try to set up a 'speech resource' (to eventually generate and download short audio files through text-to-speech service). However, when trying to create this resource, I am getting a 'failed validation error'…
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Custom Neural Voice Access Approved but Still Getting "Access Required" Error in Speech Studio - Unable to Train Model
Question: I received Custom Neural Voice approval from Microsoft 2 weeks ago, but I'm still unable to train models in Speech Studio. I keep getting this error: "Your current resource does not have access to Custom Neural Voice. You can create a…
Azure AI Speech
I am closely evaluating the Voice Live API for a customer - is there any updates on availability in Australia
I would like to know if there is any date avaialbility details around Azure Voice live API in Australia an
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Speech SDK requires outbound Internet and non-documented endpoint format when using ConversationTranscriber with VNET + Private Endpoint
I am running an Azure VM and an Azure Speech Service inside the same VNET. On the VM, I have a Python backend that uses the Speech SDK (ConversationTranscriber) for real-time speech-to-text. Issue 1 – ConversationTranscriber stops working when outbound…
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Speech To Text - S0 - Error 429 on first call
Hi everyone, I’m running into a strange issue with the Azure Speech-to-Text REST API. My workflow is: I call the endpoint: POST https://<my-resource>.cognitiveservices.azure.com/speechtotext/transcriptions:transcribe?api-version=2024-11-15 …
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Issues with ConversationTranscriber Realtime STT over Private Endpoint – Requires OCSP/CRL Internet Access and Non-Documented Endpoint Format
I am using Azure Speech Service and a VM inside the same VNET. The Speech resource has a Private Endpoint configured, and the VM accesses it through the private IP. Inside the VM, I run a Python backend that uses ConversationTranscriber (Realtime…
Azure AI Speech
Speaker diarization not reflected in logs via REST API
I am using ConversationTranscriber on the frontend with the following configuration: const speechConfig = SpeechSDK.SpeechConfig.fromAuthorizationToken( authorizationToken, speechRegion ); speechConfig.speechRecognitionLanguage =…
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How to create Custom Speech service in AI Foundry resource, key-based auth disabled
Hi there, I am facing issues when trying to create a Custom Speech service in my AI Foundry project. I have Cognitive Services User access on the resource and AI Account Owner on the project, but whenever I try to create a Speech service, I get the below…
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Alias function not working
Hello everyone, I'm trying to adjust the pronunciation of a word in Azure. However, the next to the input box for the "Alias function" the checkmark is missing to lock in the adjustment. I checked with my colleague and they can adjust the…