Text-To-Speech - used to generate spoken audio from a text source.Speech-To-Text - used to transcribe speech from an audio source to text format.The Speech service includes the following application programming interfaces (APIs): A Cognitive Services resource - choose this resource type if you plan to use the Speech service in combination with other cognitive services, and you want to manage access and billing for these services together.A Speech resource - choose this resource type if you only plan to use the Speech service, or if you want to manage access and billing for the resource separately from other services.The following tables summarize language support for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speech translation, and speaker recognition service offerings Language support varies by Speech service functionality. Speech API's should be leverage if you wish to do basic transformation between text-to-speech, speech-to-text and speech-to-speech (transformation) with the basic functionality of language,intent,key-word, speaker, recognitions. If you wish to dig deeper insights in terms detailed analysis of either spoken or written languages (Transform+Analyze+Filter) its recommended to go with Language services approach. If you only wish to transform the format in either real-time or in batches its recommended to go with Speech services approach. The key differentiation factor amongst the choice you make between the 2 is the use case intent. Language API's - Understand conversations and unstructured text

Speech API's - Assist in spoken language transformations It will help if the intent is clear what is it that you wish to achieve through analyzing images or text.Īzure Cognitive Services provides with Speech API's and Language API's which often overlap with the functionalities they cater. In this blog we discuss in detail the applications for Speech API services with the help of flow charts and graphs to help you understand its application. Which AI am I ? Īzure Cognitive Services: Vision API's This post has been republished via RSS it originally appeared at: New blog articles in Microsoft Tech Community.

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