SKILL.md
Azure AI Speech — Speech-to-Text
Transcribe audio to text with Azure Fast Transcription — synchronous,
word-level timestamps, speaker diarization, and multi-language identification.
In OpenMontage this is exposed through the azure_stt tool (capability=analysis,
provider=azure). It is an optional cloud STT provider — when
AZURE_SPEECH_KEY is configured, prefer it for cloud transcription. The local
transcriber tool (faster-whisper) remains the default offline path and the
fallback when Azure is unavailable.
Why Fast Transcription (not Batch)
Azure exposes three STT surfaces. OpenMontage uses Fast Transcription because the pipeline transcribes local audio files: