azure-ai

A map of Azure's AI services — search over your own documents, speech turned into text, text turned into speech, forms and scans read automatically — pointing at the right tool or library for each job.

WHEN TO USE

SCOPE

USE FOR

Search your own documents by keyword and by meaning at the same time.
Transcribe an audio file to text using Azure AI Speech in real time or batch.
Convert text into natural-sounding speech with neural voices, plus markup to fine-tune how it sounds.
List and inspect the search indexes available in your AI Search service.

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Azure AI Services

Services

Service	Use When	MCP Tools	CLI
AI Search	Full-text, vector, hybrid search	`azure__search`	`az search`
Speech	Speech-to-text, text-to-speech	`azure__speech`	-
OpenAI	GPT models, embeddings, DALL-E	-	`az cognitiveservices`
Document Intelligence	Form extraction, OCR	-	-

MCP Server (Preferred)

When Azure MCP is enabled:

AI Search

azure__search with command search_index_list - List search indexes
azure__search with command search_index_get - Get index details
azure__search with command search_query - Query search index

Speech

azure__speech with command speech_transcribe - Speech to text
azure__speech with command speech_synthesize - Text to speech

If Azure MCP is not enabled: Run /azure:setup or enable via /mcp.

AI Search Capabilities

Feature	Description
Full-text search	Linguistic analysis, stemming
Vector search	Semantic similarity with embeddings
Hybrid search	Combined keyword + vector
AI enrichment	Entity extraction, OCR, sentiment

Speech Capabilities

Feature	Description
Speech-to-text	Real-time and batch transcription
Text-to-speech	Neural voices, SSML support
Speaker diarization	Identify who spoke when
Custom models	Domain-specific vocabulary

SDK Quick References

For programmatic access to these services, see the condensed SDK guides:

AI Search: Python | TypeScript | .NET
OpenAI: .NET
Vision: Python | Java
Transcription: Python
Translation: Python | TypeScript
Document Intelligence: .NET | TypeScript
Content Safety: Python | TypeScript | Java

Service Details

For deep documentation on specific services:

AI Search indexing and queries -> Azure AI Search documentation
Speech transcription patterns -> Azure AI Speech documentation

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