General availability: 6 new Locales added to Speech service to support speech transcription

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Published

Jun 9, 2021

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • June 2021
    General Availability

Product

Azure AI Services
Azure AI Speech

Tag

Features
SDK and Tools
Services

Category

AI + machine learning
Mobile

Description

Speech, an Azure Cognitive Service added 6 new locales for its Speech to Text functionality. As a result, speech transcription can now occur on the following:

  • Arabic (Algeria)
  • Arabic (Libya)
  • Arabic (Morocco)
  • Arabic (Tunisia)
  • Arabic (Yemen)
  • Hebrew (Israel)

With this latest round of locale additions, Speech service can now transcribe 100 total languages and locales. Visit our full list of supported languages here, and note we are still working to add more languages & locales.

Learn how you can build speech transcription in your preferred language(s).