Speech service region expansion to ten additional regions
Microsoft announced general availability of this Azure AI Speech update in April 2019.
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Facts
- Microsoft id
speech-service-region-expansion- Status
- Launched
- Products
- Azure AI Speech
- Update type
- Regions & Datacenters, Services
- General availability
- April 2019
- Status pages
- Azure AI Speech status
- First captured by us
- (from our first import of this list)
- Microsoft last modified
- Source
- Azure Updates · open the original at Microsoft
Microsoft says
Our Speech service has expanded to 10 additional Azure regions.
What Microsoft changed
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- Status
- Launched
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- Retirement: Intent Recognition an Azure AI Speech feature will be retired on September 30th, 2025
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