Merge pull request #5961 from MicrosoftDocs/main

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articles/ai-services/.openpublishing.redirection.ai-services.json

@@ -1205,6 +1205,11 @@
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articles/ai-services/speech-service/custom-commands.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ ms.custom: cogserv-non-critical-speech
 
 [!INCLUDE [deprecation notice](./includes/custom-commands-retire.md)]
 
-Applications such as [Voice assistants](voice-assistants.md) listen to users and take an action in response, often speaking back. They use [speech to text](speech-to-text.md) to transcribe the user's speech, then take action on the natural language understanding of the text. This action frequently includes spoken output from the assistant generated with [text to speech](text-to-speech.md). Devices connect to assistants with the Speech SDK's `DialogServiceConnector` object.
+Applications such as voice agents listen to users and take an action in response, often speaking back. They use [speech to text](speech-to-text.md) to transcribe the user's speech, then take action on the natural language understanding of the text. This action frequently includes spoken output from the agent generated with [text to speech](text-to-speech.md). Devices connect to agents with the Speech SDK's `DialogServiceConnector` object.
 
 Custom Commands makes it easy to build rich voice commanding apps optimized for voice-first interaction experiences. It provides a unified authoring experience, an automatic hosting model, and relatively lower complexity. Custom Commands helps you focus on building the best solution for your voice commanding scenarios.
 

articles/ai-services/speech-service/get-started-intent-recognition-clu.md

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ keywords: intent recognition
 
 # Quickstart: Recognize intents with Conversational Language Understanding
 
+[!INCLUDE [deprecation notice](./includes/intent-recognition-retire.md)]
+
 ::: zone pivot="programming-language-csharp"
 [!INCLUDE [C# include](includes/quickstarts/intent-recognition-clu/csharp.md)]
 ::: zone-end

articles/ai-services/speech-service/get-started-intent-recognition.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ ms.topic: quickstart
 ms.date: 3/10/2025
 ms.author: eur
 zone_pivot_groups: programming-languages-speech-services
-keywords: intent recognition
+keywords: intent recognition, deprecation
 ---
 
 # Quickstart: Recognize intents with the Speech service and LUIS

articles/ai-services/speech-service/how-to-use-custom-entity-pattern-matching.md

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ ms.custom: devx-track-cpp, devx-track-csharp, mode-other, devx-track-extended-ja
 
 # How to recognize intents with custom entity pattern matching
 
+[!INCLUDE [deprecation notice](./includes/intent-recognition-retire.md)]
+
 The Azure AI services [Speech SDK](speech-sdk.md) has a built-in feature to provide **intent recognition** with **simple language pattern matching**. An intent is something the user wants to do: close a window, mark a checkbox, insert some text, etc.
 
 In this guide, you use the Speech SDK to develop a console application that derives intents from speech utterances spoken through your device's microphone. You learn how to:

articles/ai-services/speech-service/how-to-use-simple-language-pattern-matching.md

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ ms.custom: devx-track-cpp, devx-track-csharp, mode-other, devx-track-extended-ja
 
 # How to recognize intents with simple language pattern matching
 
+[!INCLUDE [deprecation notice](./includes/intent-recognition-retire.md)]
+
 The Azure AI services [Speech SDK](speech-sdk.md) has a built-in feature to provide **intent recognition** with **simple language pattern matching**. An intent is something the user wants to do: close a window, mark a checkbox, insert some text, etc.
 
 In this guide, you use the Speech SDK to develop a C++ console application that derives intents from user utterances through your device's microphone. You learn how to:

articles/ai-services/speech-service/includes/intent-recognition-retire.md

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+---
+author: goergenj
+manager: nitinme
+ms.service: azure-ai-speech
+ms.topic: include
+ms.date: 07/09/2025
+ms.author: jagoerge
+---
+
+> [!IMPORTANT]
+> Intent recognition in Azure AI Speech is being retired on September 30, 2025. Your applications won't be able to use intent recognition directly via Azure AI Speech after this date. However, you're still able to perform intent recognition using Azure AI Language Service or Azure OpenAI.
+> 
+> This change doesn't affect other Azure AI Speech capabilities such as [speech to text](../speech-to-text.md) (including no change to speaker diarization), [text to speech](../text-to-speech.md), and [speech translation](../speech-translation.md). 

articles/ai-services/speech-service/includes/release-notes/release-notes-sdk.md

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ SDK version 1.44.1 is being released for JavaScript only with 4 bug fixes:
 > [!IMPORTANT]
 > Support for target platforms is changing:
 > * The minimum supported Android version is now Android 8.0 (API level 26).
-> * The publishing of Speech SDK Unity packages are suspended after this release.
+> * The publishing of Speech SDK Unity packages is suspended after this release.
 
 #### New features:
   * Added support for Android 16 KB memory page sizes.
@@ -724,7 +724,7 @@ This table shows the previous and new object names for real-time diarization and
 
 #### New features
 
-- **Objective-C, Swift, and Python**: Added support for DialogServiceConnector, used for [Voice-Assistant scenarios](../../voice-assistants.md).
+- **Objective-C, Swift, and Python**: Added support for DialogServiceConnector, used for voice assistant scenarios.
 - **Python**: Support for Python 3.10 was added. Support for Python 3.6 was removed, per Python's [end-of-life for 3.6](https://devguide.python.org/devcycle/#end-of-life-branches).
 - **Unity**: Speech SDK is now supported for Unity applications on Linux.
 - **C++, C#**: IntentRecognizer using pattern matching is now supported in C#. In addition, scenarios with custom entities, optional groups, and entity roles are now supported in C++ and C#.
@@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@ Stay healthy!
 ### Speech SDK 1.12.0: 2020-May release
 
 #### New features
-- **Go**: New Go language support for [Speech Recognition](../../get-started-speech-to-text.md?pivots=programming-language-go) and [custom voice assistant](../../quickstarts/voice-assistants.md?pivots=programming-language-go). Set up your dev environment [here](../../quickstarts/setup-platform.md?pivots=programming-language-go). For sample code, see the Samples section below.
+- **Go**: New Go language support for [Speech Recognition](../../get-started-speech-to-text.md?pivots=programming-language-go) and custom voice assistant. Set up your dev environment [here](../../quickstarts/setup-platform.md?pivots=programming-language-go). For sample code, see the Samples section below.
 - **JavaScript**: Added Browser support for text to speech. See documentation [here](../../get-started-text-to-speech.md?pivots=programming-language-JavaScript).
 - **C++, C#, Java**: New `KeywordRecognizer` object and APIs supported on Windows, Android, Linux & iOS platforms. Read the documentation [here](../../keyword-recognition-overview.md). For sample code, see the Samples section below.
 - **Java**: Added multi-device conversation with translation support. See the reference doc [here](/java/api/com.microsoft.cognitiveservices.speech.transcription).
@@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@ Stay healthy!
 - Fixed memory leaks in the keyword recognizer engine.
 
 #### Samples
-- **Go**: Added quickstarts for [speech recognition](../../get-started-speech-to-text.md?pivots=programming-language-go) and [custom voice assistant](../../quickstarts/voice-assistants.md?pivots=programming-language-go). Find sample code [here](https://github.com/microsoft/cognitive-services-speech-sdk-go/tree/master/samples).
+- **Go**: Added quickstarts for [speech recognition](../../get-started-speech-to-text.md?pivots=programming-language-go) and custom voice assistant. Find sample code [here](https://github.com/microsoft/cognitive-services-speech-sdk-go/tree/master/samples).
 - **JavaScript**: Added quickstarts for [Text to speech](../../get-started-text-to-speech.md?pivots=programming-language-javascript), [Translation](../../get-started-speech-translation.md?pivots=programming-language-csharp&tabs=script), and [Intent Recognition](../../get-started-intent-recognition.md?pivots=programming-language-javascript).
 - Keyword recognition samples for [C\#](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/tree/master/quickstart/csharp/uwp/keyword-recognizer) and [Java](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/tree/master/quickstart/java/android/keyword-recognizer) (Android). 
 

articles/ai-services/speech-service/intent-recognition.md

@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ ms.date: 3/10/2025
 
 # What is intent recognition?
 
+[!INCLUDE [deprecation notice](./includes/intent-recognition-retire.md)]
+
 In this overview, you learn about the benefits and capabilities of intent recognition. An intent is something the user wants to do: book a flight, check the weather, or make a call. With intent recognition, your applications, tools, and devices can determine what the user wants to initiate or do based on options. You define user intent in the intent recognizer or conversational language understanding (CLU) model.
 
 ## Pattern matching

articles/ai-services/speech-service/keyword-recognition-guidelines.md

@@ -47,4 +47,4 @@ For applications that require latency optimization, applications can provide lig
 ## Next steps
 
 * [Get the Speech SDK.](speech-sdk.md)
-* [Learn more about Voice Assistants.](voice-assistants.md)
+* [Learn more about voice agents](voice-live.md)