Create an Azure AI services account

• 5 minutes

Azure AI services is a product bundle that allows customers to access multiple services—such as vision, language, and speech—by using a single API key.

For your company's transcription department, you'll focus on Azure AI speech to text features to transcribe your clients' audio files into text that you can return to your clients.

However, before you can create an application that uses Azure AI services like as speech to text, you need to create an Azure AI services account.

In the next unit, you'll complete an exercise that uses the Azure CLI to create an Azure AI services account. However, you can also use the Azure portal, which we describe in the following section.

Create an Azure AI services account using the Azure portal

The multi-service resource is listed under Azure AI services > Azure AI services multi-service account in the portal. To create a multi-service resource follow these instructions:

1. Sign into the Azure portal.

2. Select this link to create a multi-service resource: https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.CognitiveServicesAllInOne

3. On the Create page, provide the following information:

   Project details	Description
   Subscription	Select one of your available Azure subscriptions.
   Resource group	The Azure resource group that will contain your Azure AI services resource. You can create a new group or add it to a pre-existing group.
   Region	The location of your Azure AI service instance. Different locations may introduce latency, but have no impact on the runtime availability of your resource.
   Name	A descriptive name for your Azure AI services resource. For example, MyAzureAIServicesResource.
   Pricing tier	The cost of your Azure AI services account depends on the options you choose and your usage. For more information, see the API pricing details.

   

4. Configure other settings for your resource as needed, read and accept the conditions (as applicable), and then select Review + create.