Skills azure-ai

Use for Azure AI: Search, Speech, OpenAI, Document Intelligence. Helps with search, vector/hybrid search, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, transcription, OCR. WHEN: AI Search, query search, vector search, hybrid search, semantic search, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, transcribe, OCR, convert text to speech.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/microsoft/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/.github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-ai" ~/.claude/skills/microsoft-skills-azure-ai && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: .github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-ai/SKILL.md

source content

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