azure-ai

Name: azure-ai
Author: microsoft

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

INSTALLATION

npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-ai

Run in your project or agent environment. Adjust flags if your CLI version differs.

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 search_index_list - List search indexes

azure__search with command search_index_get - 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 | TypeScript | .NET

OpenAI: .NET

Vision: Python | Java

Transcription: Python

Translation: Python | TypeScript

Document Intelligence: .NET | TypeScript

Content Safety: Python | TypeScript | Java

Service Details

For deep documentation on specific services:

AI Search indexing and queries -> Azure AI Search documentation

Speech transcription patterns -> Azure AI Speech documentation