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Microsoft's Azure Speech product page says its audio captioning works in more than 100 languages.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 19, 2026
In the source's own words
“Go global with audio captioning in more than 100 languages”
Azure Speech in Foundry Tools | Microsoft Azure, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, n.d., Transcribe speech to text section.
Open the original- What it measures
- The sentence sits under the Transcribe speech to text heading of the product page, beside the call center and meeting use case. It is a product claim about captioning, not a list of locales.
- What it does not show
- More than 100 is a floor, recorded as 100. The page does not name the languages. Microsoft's locale table on Learn lists 148 locales, counted by us; the table states no total.
In the data
A row of How Many Languages Speech Recognition Supports, as Azure AI Speech, captioning: 100 languages.
- System
- Microsoft Azure AI Speech
- Maker
- Microsoft
- Kind
- Cloud speech API
- On device
- Not stated
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- The page says more than 100, so 100 is a floor, recorded as stated. The figure is for audio captioning, as the page words it.
Source
Used to calculate
- In the languages supported by speech recognition systems dataset, the 10 published figures for “Cloud speech API” have a median of 94 languages, ranging from 13 to 125.
- The languages supported by speech recognition systems dataset holds 45 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The languages supported by speech recognition systems dataset draws on 39 distinct sources.