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