Microsoft Speech

Bing API for speech recognition - converts speech to text and vice versa, and also understands the essence of the utterance for a natural answer.

• Service description and price: https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/pricing
• Аvailable SSML: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh378377.aspx
• You can get a trial key at the link: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/try/cognitive-services/

Fig. 1. Pay as You Go (Standard S0)

• You can obtain a trial key at the following link: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/try/cognitive-services/

Below is an example of how to obtain the necessary data using the Free Account as an example.

Sign in. To do this, follow the link https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/ai-services/ and click the Start free button (Figure 2).

Fig.2. Start free

After registration, you will be directed to the main page, where you should enter "speech" in the search bar (1), and then select "speech services" from the dropdown menu (2). (Fig.3).

Fig.3. Speech services

Next, you need to select Azure AI Services and click on Create (Fig. 4) (1).

Fig. 4. Create button

Next (Fig.5) you need to enter the region (1), the name (2), select the Standard S0 pricing tier (3), and click on Review+Create (4) to proceed.

Fig.5 Create Speech Services

After passing the validation, you will be prompted to create a voice service. Click on Create.

Your voice service has been successfully created. Next, you need to select the resource you created. To do this, go to the Home page, then click on Speech Services (Fig. 6)

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Fig. 6.  Home. Speech Services

To view and manage keys for the service, click on the service you created earlier, then select Key 1 (Fig. 7) to configure the voice profile.

Fig.7. Keys and endpoints