Overview of Azure Speech services
The Azure Speech services are a collection of APIs surrounding various ways to convert speech to text, convert text to speech, translate speech, and other related services. When we consider the importance of speech in any business, and the ability to improve communications for accessibility and cultural reasons, it is easy to position these capabilities as transformative. As organizations become globalized and it is an everyday occurrence that language translation services can be used to improve internal and external communications, Microsoft has made significant effort and investment to support the most popular languages worldwide. In this chapter, you will learn how those investments have evolved to offer many solutions where the communication gaps have been closed significantly, which has led to an enhanced customer service experience for Ocean Smart customers.
In the Ocean Smart example, we are taking audio recordings from voice messages and...
