Configuring Microsoft Azure Speech to Text

Microsoft Azure Speech to Text is a service with a free tier that enables you to solve audio challenges. The following guide will help you to configure the extension to use this service.

Get an API key

1. Go to Microsoft Azure and sign up for free with a Microsoft account, you may need to add a credit card to activate the account
2. Go to Create Speech Services to create a new speech service, create a new resource group, such as cognitive-services, select a region, give the service a unique name, select the free pricing tier, and click on Review + create to validate the provided details, then click on Create and wait for the service to be created
3. Go to Cognitive Services and click on the newly created service
4. Go to Resource Management > Keys and Endpoint and click on Show Keys
5. Copy the first displayed API key

Configure the extension

1. Open the extension's options
2. Under Speech recognition select Microsoft Azure Speech to Text
3. Under API location select the location of the service you have created
4. Paste the API key you have previously copied from Microsoft Azure into the API key field

The extension is ready to use, and the options page can now be closed.