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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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Microsoft
version
1.0.1

SKILL.md

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

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