Develop natural language solutions in Azure
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Last updated March 18, 2026
A path on building apps and agents that work with written and spoken language using Microsoft Foundry's language and speech services. On the text side it covers analyzing text to detect language, extract entities, and redact personally identifiable information, and building a text-analysis agent. On the speech side it covers transcribing speech to text and synthesizing text back to speech, building speech-capable applications and agents, and a live voice agent. A final module adds translation of both text and speech between languages.
What you'll learn
- Analyzing text: language detection, entity extraction, and redacting personally identifiable information (PII)
- Building a text-analysis agent with the Azure Language MCP server
- Speech-to-text transcription and text-to-speech synthesis
- Building speech-capable apps and a live voice agent
- Translating text and speech between languages
Frequently asked questions about Develop natural language solutions in Azure
Who is Develop natural language solutions in Azure for?
Developers with programming experience and Azure familiarity who want to build language, speech, and translation features.
Is Develop natural language solutions in Azure free?
Yes — Develop natural language solutions in Azure is completely free to take.
What are the prerequisites for Develop natural language solutions in Azure?
Familiarity with Azure and the Azure portal, plus programming experience.
Do you need to code for Develop natural language solutions in Azure?
Yes — Develop natural language solutions in Azure involves hands-on coding.
Why we suggest this course
For a developer who needs to add language understanding, speech, or translation to an application, this path covers the full span of natural language work on Azure — text analysis, speech-to-text and text-to-speech, and translation — and shows how to surface each as an app or an agent. One thing to know: it assumes familiarity with Azure and the Azure portal plus programming experience, so it is a build-focused developer path rather than a conceptual overview.