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.
Azure Speech To Text is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the cloud-platforms sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/azure-speech-to-text/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when converting audio/video to text, generating subtitles, or processing spoken content in OpenMontage. Optional cloud STT provider — preferred when AZURE_SPEECH_KEY is configured; the local faster-whisper `transcriber` is the default offline path.
The Azure Speech To Text Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 161,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/azure-speech-to-text curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/azure-speech-to-text/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/azure-speech-to-text/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/azure-speech-to-text/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/azure-speech-to-text/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\azure-speech-to-text\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/azure-speech-to-text/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Azure Speech To Text is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Engineering category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{azure-speech-to-text-2026,
author = {calesthio},
title = {Azure Speech To Text [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/azure-speech-to-text/}
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