Retired on 30 September 2025, this Speech SDK feature mapped spoken utterances to intents; use speech to text and then CLU or an Azure OpenAI model instead.
Also called IntentRecognizer.
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Terms in this definition
- Speech SDK
The Azure Speech client library, installed in Python as azure-cognitiveservices-speech and imported as speechsdk, providing SpeechSynthesizer, SpeechRecognizer, SpeechConfig and classes for audio configuration.
- Speech recognition
Turning spoken audio into text, for example call transcripts or captions.
- CLU
Conversational language understanding: a custom Azure Language feature for chatbots that works out the intent behind an utterance and pulls out its entities; it retires on 31 March 2029.
- Azure OpenAI
Use of OpenAI models in Azure, including GPT, o-series, embeddings, image and Whisper, through either a Foundry resource or an Azure OpenAI resource. Content Understanding isn't available from a standalone Azure OpenAI resource.