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azure-ai

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 speech.

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Installation

$ npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-ai
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Summary

  • Unified access to Azure AI services: Search, Speech, OpenAI, and Document Intelligence.
  • AI Search supports full-text, vector, hybrid, and semantic search with AI enrichment capabilities like entity extraction and OCR Speech service enables speech-to-text transcription (real-time and batch), text-to-speech with neural voices, speaker diarization, and custom models MCP server integration provides direct tool access via azure__search and azure__speech commands; falls back to CLI and SDK when MCP is unavailable Includes OpenAI model access, DALL-E image generation, embeddings, and Document Intelligence for form extraction and OCR

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Repository health

Stars 1.5K
License MIT
Default branch main
Open issues 9
Last push Sep 10, 2026
Status Active

Skill metadata

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Version1.2.1
LicenseMIT
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author
Microsoft
version
1.2.1

Package contents

Files included with this skill beyond the listing page.

  • skill md SKILL.md 3,268 B
  • docs SUMMARY.md 324 B

History

  1. First seen on skills.sh
  2. SKILL.md last updated on GitHub
  3. First recorded snapshot · 569,500 installs

SKILL.md

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 searchindexlist - List search indexes
  • azure__search with command searchindexget - 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

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