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Use Azure Speech to convert speech to text

Use Azure Speech to convert speech to text

- [Instructor] Right, as this lesson says on the proverbial tin, we're concerned with text transcription. Specifically, we can use the Azure SDKs for live transcription in apps, that's what Microsoft recommends for your streaming scenario. And they expose their raw API for use with batch jobs on stored files. Why is that? Because Microsoft knows that batch jobs are often done asynchronously, so you've got a different programming paradigm with that as opposed to your SDK code, which is for your 80% live while the speech is coming in kind of scenario. That's an important point for the exam, actually. The supported incoming file formats, basically your audio file format. So if you've pulled a recording from a business meeting or a class or something that you want to pull a transcript, that's what we're talking about. So WAV and MP3 and OGG. We also can have live streaming speech coming in via the microphone or over the network, you see? For authentication, it's traditional API, but we're…

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