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

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](references/sdk/azure search documents py.md) [TypeScript](references/sdk/azure search documents ts.md) [.NET](references/sdk/azure search documents dotnet.md) OpenAI : [.NET](references/sdk/azure ai openai dotnet.md) Vision : [Python](references/sdk/azure ai vision imageanalysis py.md) [Java](references/sdk/azure ai vision imageanalysis java.md) Transcription : [Python](references/sdk/azure ai transcription py.md) Translation : [Python](references/sdk/azure ai translation text py.md) [TypeScript](references/sdk/azure ai translation ts.md) Document Intelligence : [.NET](references/sdk/azure ai document intelligence dotnet.md) [TypeScript](references/sdk/azure ai document intelligence ts.md) Content Safety : [Python](references/sdk/azure ai contentsafety py.md) [TypeScript](references/sdk/azure ai contentsafety ts.md) [Java](references/sdk/azure ai contentsafety java.md) Service Details For deep documentation on specific services: AI Search indexing and queries [Azure AI Search documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/search/search what is azure search) Speech transcription patterns [Azure AI Speech documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/ai services/speech service/overview)

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