3 Microsoft Azure AI product features that accelerate language learning

By Dustin Ward

The Microsoft Azure Cognitive Speech Services platform is a comprehensive collection of technologies and services aimed at accelerating the incorporation of speech into applications and amplifying differentiation to the market as a result. Among the services available are Speech to Text, Text to Speech, custom neural voice (CNV) Conversation Transcription Service, Speaker Recognition, Speech Translation,…

Microsoft Azure innovation powers leading price-performance for SQL Server

By Dustin Ward

As part of our commitment to ensuring that Microsoft Azure is the best place to run SQL Server and Windows Server, Microsoft is excited to announce that SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines just achieved new, faster performance benchmarks than ever before. According to a report from analyst firm GigaOm, customers can get mission-critical performance…