Fact · Speech recognition
5audio hours per month
Azure AI Speech's free (F0) tier includes 5 audio hours a month of standard real-time transcription.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Real-time Transcription: 5 audio hours free per month”
Azure AI Speech pricing, Microsoft Azure, 2026, Free (F0) table.
Open the original- What it measures
- The free tier appears in Microsoft's table of speech to text features under the Free (F0) category, with separate limits for custom models and endpoint hosting.
- What it does not show
- The free tier is a quota, and quotas can change. Batch and other features have their own rates.
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