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RETIREMENT

Retirement: Intent Recognition an Azure AI Speech feature will be retired on September 30th, 2025

Published date: Sep 26, 2024

Azure AI Services is restructuring its Speech service features, prioritizing new innovations in line with the introduction of large language models. This shift has changed the direction of speech interactions for Voice Commanding scenarios. For these reasons, Intent Recognition will be deprecated on September 30th, 2025.

Intent Recognition (IR) capability in the Speech Service will be supported until September 30th, 2025, however, The Intent Recognition API will be removed from new versions of the Speech SDK after November 30th, 2024. 

Required action

Customers can use Speech Recognition with  Conversational Language Understanding (CLU) API directly to classify intents and entities of recognized utterances.

Help and Support

If you have questions, get answers from community experts in Microsoft Q&A.  

If you have a support plan and you need technical help, create a support request:

  1. For Issue type, select Technical. 

  2. For Subscription, select your subscription. 

  3. For  Service, select My services, then select Cognitive Services. 

  4. Select the Azure resource that you are creating a support request for. 

  5. For Summary, type a description of your issue. 

  6. For Problem type, select “Intent Recognition”.  

  7. For problem subtype, select “Issues creating your Voice Assistant”.   

Learn more about service retirements that may impact your resources in the Azure Retirement Workbook. Please note that retirements may not be visible in the workbook for up to two weeks after being announced.