The azure-ai skill integrates various Azure AI services including AI Search for full-text, vector, and hybrid searches; Speech for speech-to-text and text-to-speech capabilities; OpenAI for GPT models and embeddings; and Document Intelligence for form extraction and OCR. It offers programmatic SDK access and command-line tools, making it ideal for developers building AI-powered applications with Azure’s cognitive services. This skill supports advanced AI features like semantic similarity search, neural voices, speaker diarization, and custom models for domain-specific vocabularies.

npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure --skill azure-ai

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:

  • 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:

Service Details

For deep documentation on specific services:

GitHub Owner

Owner: microsoft

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