# Azure Speech Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Azure Speech: Microsoft's unified speech service for accurate, customizable, and secure voice experiences.

Azure Speech offers a comprehensive suite of AI capabilities: speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and speech translation. It accurately transcribes audio in over 100 languages and variants, even in noisy environments, leveraging custom models for domain-specific accuracy. Developers can synthesize natural-sounding speech with 400+ neural voices across 140+ languages and dialects, or create unique custom neural voices. The service also provides real-time, multi-language speech translation, making global communication seamless. Built on Azure's secure and compliant infrastructure, it ensures data privacy and enterprise-grade reliability for applications ranging from call centers to voice assistants.

- Official technology site: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-services/speech
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 2
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Canto101: Learn Cantonese with Karaoke & Interactive Role-Play.](https://hong-kong.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_b3Uv6gyaL6c)

Canto101 is a full-stack web app that makes Cantonese learning fun and culturally immersive. Instead of dry textbooks, users chat with an AI in realistic scenarios like ordering milk tea or hailing a taxi, search for Cantonese songs and tap any lyric to instantly see its Jyutping romanisation and meaning, and play vocabulary games that reinforce memory. The live demo includes the AI conversation engine, the smart dictionary with over a thousand entries, the karaoke lyric viewer, and the challenge zone. Real-time pronunciation scoring is firmly on my roadmap and I will also share my architectural blueprint for how I plan to integrate it using Azure Speech in the near future.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Hong Kong: July Meetup @ Wyndham Social — 2026-07-29 — Hong Kong
- Public talk page: https://hong-kong.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_b3Uv6gyaL6c

### [AI-driven construction contract management tool](https://nashville.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_wDbnTDTr_F0)

Mori Solution is an AI-driven contract analytics tool focused on interpreting complex construction contracts and technical specifications. This presentation demonstrates a working Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline that enables semantic search and question answering over large, unstructured PDF documents. I will cover how construction contracts are parsed, chunked, embedded, and retrieved to support accurate queries related to safety requirements, bonds, and payment terms. The demo includes a live code walkthrough of the ingestion and retrieval pipeline, along with a speech-recognition interface that allows users to ask natural language questions and receive grounded, source-cited responses from the underlying contract data.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Nashville – January 29th, 2026: Live Demos, Code, and Architecture — 2026-01-29 — Nashville
- Public talk page: https://nashville.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_wDbnTDTr_F0

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