Retirement: Azure AI Speaker Recognition
Microsoft retired this Azure AI Speech feature on 30 September 2025.
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- Microsoft id
azure-ai-speaker-recognition-retirement- Products
- Azure AI Speech
- Update type
- Retirements, Services
- Retirement
- 30 September 2025
- Status pages
- Azure AI Speech status
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Microsoft says
Beginning on September 30, 2025, Azure AI Speaker Recognition will be retired, and your applications will no longer be able to access its APIs.
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Related changes
Other changes for Azure AI Speech
- Speech-to-text REST API v3.0 will be retired by 31 March 2026.
- Cognitive Services Custom Commands feature is being retired on April 30, 2026
- OpenAI Whisper model in preview in Azure OpenAI service and Azure AI Speech · In preview
- General availability: Announcing the release of Swiss German dialect speech recognition support · Launched
- Upgrade to Text-to-Speech Neural Voice by 31 August 2024
- General availability: 6 new Locales added to Speech service to support speech transcription · Launched
- Azure Speech Services REST API v3.0 is now available · Launched
- Speech service region expansion to ten additional regions · Launched
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