Azure AI Services

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

GitHub Owner

Owner: microsoft

GitHub Links

• Website: https://opensource.microsoft.com
• Email: opensource@microsoft.com
• Verified domains: microsoft, opensource.microsoft.com, microsoft.com

Files

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TypeScript

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.NET

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.NET

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Python

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Java

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Python

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Python

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TypeScript

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.NET

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TypeScript

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Python

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TypeScript

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Java

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