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Azure AI Services

Name: Azure AI Services
Author: microsoft

By microsoft· microsoft/azure-skills· 0

Search, transcribe speech, and extract text from documents using Azure AI.

Installation

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Make sure Claude is on your device and in your terminal.
Skills load from ~/.claude/skills/ when Claude Code starts up — so you need it on your machine first. If you don't have it yet, install it once with the command below, then run claude in any terminal to verify.
One-time setup
```
npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
```
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Paste into Claude Code or into your terminal.

Install

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This copies the whole skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/azure-ai-microsoft/ — the SKILL.md plus any scripts, reference docs, or templates the skill ships with. Safe default: works for every skill.

Faster alternative (instruction-only skills)

Skips the clone and grabs only the SKILL.md file. Don't use this if the skill ships Python scripts, reference markdowns, or asset templates — they won't be downloaded and the skill will fail when it tries to load them.

Quick install (SKILL.md only)

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Restart Claude Code.
Quit and reopen Claude Code (or any other agent that loads from ~/.claude/skills/). New skills are picked up on startup.
Just ask Claude.
Skills auto-activate when your request matches the skill's description — no slash command needed. Trigger phrases live in the skill's own frontmatter; you can read them in the “What this skill does” section above.

Prefer to read the source first? Open on GitHub.

When Claude uses it

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.

What this skill does

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