azure-ai

Use for Azure AI: Search, Speech, OpenAI, Document Intelligence. Helps with search, vector/hybrid search, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, transcription, OCR. WHEN: AI Search, query search, vector search, hybrid search, semantic search, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, transcribe, OCR, convert text to speech.

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Azure AI Services

Name: azure-ai
Rating: 63.2 (1 reviews)
Author: microsoft

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

Repository: microsoft/azure-skills
Path: .github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-ai/SKILL.md
Commit: bff9370

Last updated: 6 days ago
First committed: 7 months ago

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