Speech Service supported regions

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The Speech service allows your application to convert audio to text, perform speech translation, and covert text to speech. The service is available in multiple regions with unique endpoints for the Speech SDK and REST APIs.

Make sure that you use the endpoint that matches the region for your subscription.

Speech SDK

In the Speech SDK, regions are specified as a string (for example, as a parameter to SpeechConfig.FromSubscription in the Speech SDK for C#).

Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation

The Speech SDK is available in these regions for speech recognition, text-to-speech, and translation:

Region Speech SDK Parameter Speech Customization Portal
West US westus https://westus.cris.ai
West US2 westus2 https://westus2.cris.ai
East US eastus https://eastus.cris.ai
East US2 eastus2 https://eastus2.cris.ai
Central US centralus https://centralus.cris.ai
North Central US northcentralus https://northcentralus.cris.ai
South Central US southcentralus https://southcentralus.cris.ai
Central India centralindia https://centralindia.cris.ai
East Asia eastasia https://eastasia.cris.ai
South East Asia southeastasia https://southeastasia.cris.ai
Japan East japaneast https://japaneast.cris.ai
Korea Central koreacentral https://koreacentral.cris.ai
Australia East australiaeast https://australiaeast.cris.ai
Canada Central canadacentral https://canadacentral.cris.ai
North Europe northeurope https://northeurope.cris.ai
West Europe westeurope https://westeurope.cris.ai
UK South uksouth https://uksouth.cris.ai
France Central francecentral https://francecentral.cris.ai

Intent recognition

Available regions for intent recognition via the Speech SDK are the following:

Global region Region Speech SDK Parameter
Asia East Asia eastasia
Asia Southeast Asia southeastasia
Australia Australia East australiaeast
Europe North Europe northeurope
Europe West Europe westeurope
North America East US eastus
North America East US 2 eastus2
North America South Central US southcentralus
North America West Central US westcentralus
North America West US westus
North America West US 2 westus2
South America Brazil South brazilsouth

This is a subset of the publishing regions supported by the Language Understanding service (LUIS).

REST APIs

The Speech service also exposes REST endpoints for speech-to-text and text-to-speech requests.

Speech-to-text

For speech-to-text reference documentation, see Speech-to-text REST API.

Region Endpoint
Australia East https://australiaeast.stt.speech.microsoft.com/speech/recognition/conversation/cognitiveservices/v1
Canada Central https://canadacentral.stt.speech.microsoft.com/speech/recognition/conversation/cognitiveservices/v1
Central US https://centralus.stt.speech.microsoft.com/speech/recognition/conversation/cognitiveservices/v1
East Asia https://eastasia.stt.speech.microsoft.com/speech/recognition/conversation/cognitiveservices/v1
East US https://eastus.stt.speech.microsoft.com/speech/recognition/conversation/cognitiveservices/v1
East US 2 https://eastus2.stt.speech.microsoft.com/speech/recognition/conversation/cognitiveservices/v1
France Central https://francecentral.stt.speech.microsoft.com/speech/recognition/conversation/cognitiveservices/v1
India Central https://centralindia.stt.speech.microsoft.com/speech/recognition/conversation/cognitiveservices/v1
Japan East https://japaneast.stt.speech.microsoft.com/speech/recognition/conversation/cognitiveservices/v1
Korea Central https://koreacentral.stt.speech.microsoft.com/speech/recognition/conversation/cognitiveservices/v1
North Central US https://northcentralus.stt.speech.microsoft.com/speech/recognition/conversation/cognitiveservices/v1
North Europe https://northeurope.stt.speech.microsoft.com/speech/recognition/conversation/cognitiveservices/v1
South Central US https://southcentralus.stt.speech.microsoft.com/speech/recognition/conversation/cognitiveservices/v1
Southeast Asia https://southeastasia.stt.speech.microsoft.com/speech/recognition/conversation/cognitiveservices/v1
UK South https://uksouth.stt.speech.microsoft.com/speech/recognition/conversation/cognitiveservices/v1
West Europe https://westeurope.stt.speech.microsoft.com/speech/recognition/conversation/cognitiveservices/v1
West US https://westus.stt.speech.microsoft.com/speech/recognition/conversation/cognitiveservices/v1
West US 2 https://westus2.stt.speech.microsoft.com/speech/recognition/conversation/cognitiveservices/v1

Note

The language parameter must be appended to the URL to avoid receiving an 4xx HTTP error. For example, the language set to US English using the West US endpoint is: https://westus.stt.speech.microsoft.com/speech/recognition/conversation/speech/recognition/conversation/cognitiveservices/v1?language=en-US.

Text-to-speech

For text-to-speech reference documentation, see Text-to-speech REST API.

Standard and neural voices

Use this table to determine availability of standard and neural voices by region/endpoint:

Region Endpoint Standard Voices Neural Voices
Australia East https://australiaeast.tts.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1 Yes Yes
Canada Central https://canadacentral.tts.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1 Yes Yes
Central US https://centralus.tts.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1 Yes No
East Asia https://eastasia.tts.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1 Yes No
East US https://eastus.tts.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1 Yes Yes
East US 2 https://eastus2.tts.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1 Yes No
France Central https://francecentral.tts.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1 Yes No
India Central https://centralindia.tts.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1 Yes Yes
Japan East https://japaneast.tts.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1 Yes No
Korea Central https://koreacentral.tts.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1 Yes No
North Central US https://northcentralus.tts.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1 Yes No
North Europe https://northeurope.tts.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1 Yes No
South Central US https://southcentralus.tts.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1 Yes Yes
Southeast Asia https://southeastasia.tts.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1 Yes Yes
UK South https://uksouth.tts.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1 Yes Yes
West Europe https://westeurope.tts.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1 Yes Yes
West US https://westus.tts.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1 Yes No
West US 2 https://westus2.tts.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1 Yes Yes

Custom voices

If you've created a custom voice font, use the endpoint that you've created. You can also use the endpoints listed below, replacing the {deploymentId} with the deployment ID for your voice model.

Region Endpoint
Australia East https://australiaeast.voice.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1?deploymentId={deploymentId}
Canada Central https://canadacentral.voice.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1?deploymentId={deploymentId}
Central US https://centralus.voice.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1?deploymentId={deploymentId}
East Asia https://eastasia.voice.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1?deploymentId={deploymentId}
East US https://eastus.voice.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1?deploymentId={deploymentId}
East US 2 https://eastus2.voice.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1?deploymentId={deploymentId}
France Central https://francecentral.voice.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1?deploymentId={deploymentId}
India Central https://centralindia.voice.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1?deploymentId={deploymentId}
Japan East https://japaneast.voice.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1?deploymentId={deploymentId}
Korea Central https://koreacentral.voice.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1?deploymentId={deploymentId}
North Central US https://northcentralus.voice.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1?deploymentId={deploymentId}
North Europe https://northeurope.voice.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1?deploymentId={deploymentId}
South Central US https://southcentralus.voice.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1?deploymentId={deploymentId}
Southeast Asia https://southeastasia.voice.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1?deploymentId={deploymentId}
UK South https://uksouth.voice.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1?deploymentId={deploymentId}
West Europe https://westeurope.voice.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1?deploymentId={deploymentId}
West US https://westus.voice.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1?deploymentId={deploymentId}
West US 2 https://westus2.voice.speech.microsoft.com/cognitiveservices/v1?deploymentId={deploymentId}