Speech Service supported regions

• 03/12/2019
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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:

Intent recognition

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

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

Voice-first virtual assistants

The Speech SDK supports voice-first virtual assistant capabilities in these regions:

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.

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:

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.