# Azure Speech To Text

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/azure-speech-to-text
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/azure-speech-to-text.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/azure-speech-to-text/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://microsoft.com
- **Slug:** azure-speech-to-text
- **Categories:** ai-machine-learning, cloud-infrastructure, communications-cpaas, customer-support-cx-software, developer-tools, healthcare-it

## Overview

- **Tagline:** Unrivaled enterprise compliance (ISO, HIPAA, FedRAMP) paired with the ability to choose between Microsoft's proprietary models and OpenAI's Whisper in a single cloud environment.
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Azure Speech to Text is a cloud-based speech recognition service provided by Microsoft. It uses deep learning models to transcribe audio files or real-time speech into text, supporting over 100 languages and custom model training for specific industry vocabulary.
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - Real-time Speech-to-Text
  - Batch Transcription
  - Custom Speech
  - Pronunciation Assessment
  - Speaker Diarization
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Usage-based (Pay-as-you-go) with free tier available
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Enterprise, Software Developers, Health Care, Financial Services, Call Centers
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
  - Amazon Transcribe
  - OpenAI Whisper (API)
  - Deepgram
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-17.