Merge pull request #103818 from IEvangelist/freshPrince

[CogSvcs] freshness sweep.

Author: v-shils

articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/overview.md

@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ title: What is the Speech service?
 titleSuffix: Azure Cognitive Services
 description: The Speech service is the unification of speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and speech translation into a single Azure subscription. Add speech to your applications, tools, and devices with the Speech SDK, Speech Devices SDK, or REST APIs.
 services: cognitive-services
-author: erhopf
+author: IEvangelist
 manager: nitinme
 ms.service: cognitive-services
 ms.subservice: speech-service
 ms.topic: overview
-ms.date: 11/05/2019
-ms.author: erhopf
+ms.date: 02/10/2020
+ms.author: dapine
 ---
 
 # What is the Speech service?
@@ -33,24 +33,6 @@ These features make up the Speech service. Use the links in this table to learn
 | [Speech Translation](speech-translation.md) | Speech translation | Speech translation enables real-time, multi-language translation of speech to your applications, tools, and devices. Use this service for speech-to-speech and speech-to-text translation. | [Yes](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/speech-sdk-reference) | No |
 | [Voice assistants](voice-assistants.md) | Voice assistants | Voice assistants using the Speech service empower developers to create natural, human-like conversational interfaces for their applications and experiences. The voice assistant service provides fast, reliable interaction between a device and an assistant implementation that uses the Bot Framework's Direct Line Speech channel or the integrated Custom Commands (Preview) service for task completion. | [Yes](voice-assistants.md) | No |
 
-## News and updates
-
-Learn what's new with the Speech service.
-
-- November 2019
-  - Added two new speaking styles, [`newscast`](speech-synthesis-markup.md#adjust-speaking-styles) and [`customerservice`](speech-synthesis-markup.md#adjust-speaking-styles) for the `en-US-JessaNeural` voice.
-- September 2019
-  - Released Speech SDK 1.7.0. For a full list of updates, enhancements, and known issues, see [Release notes](releasenotes.md).
-- August 2019
-  - **New tutorial**: [Voice enable your bot with the Speech SDK, C#](tutorial-voice-enable-your-bot-speech-sdk.md)
-  - Added a new speaking style, [`chat`](speech-synthesis-markup.md#adjust-speaking-styles), for the `en-US-JessaNeural` voice.
-- June 2019
-  - Released Speech SDK 1.6.0. For a full list of updates, enhancements, and known issues, see [Release notes](releasenotes.md).
-- May 2019 - Documentation is now available for [Conversation Transcription](conversation-transcription-service.md), [Call Center Transcription](call-center-transcription.md), and [voice assistants](voice-assistants.md).
-- May 2019
-  - Released Speech SDK 1.5.1. For a full list of updates, enhancements, and known issues, see [Release notes](releasenotes.md).
-  - Released Speech SDK 1.5.0. For a full list of updates, enhancements, and known issues, see [Release notes](releasenotes.md).
-
 ## Try the Speech service
 
 We offer quickstarts in most popular programming languages, each designed to have you running code in less than 10 minutes. This table contains the most popular quickstarts for each feature. Use the left-hand navigation to explore additional languages and platforms.

articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/quickstart-voice-assistant-csharp-uwp.md

@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ title: 'Quickstart: Custom voice assistant, C# (UWP) - Speech service'
 titleSuffix: Azure Cognitive Services
 description: In this article, you create a C# Universal Windows Platform (UWP) application by using the Cognitive Services Speech Software Development Kit (SDK). You connect your client application to a previously created Bot Framework bot configured to use the Direct Line Speech channel. The application is built with the Speech SDK NuGet Package and Microsoft Visual Studio 2019.
 services: cognitive-services
-author: trrwilson
+author: IEvangelist
 manager: nitinme
 ms.service: cognitive-services
 ms.subservice: speech-service
 ms.topic: quickstart
-ms.date: 11/05/2019
-ms.author: travisw
+ms.date: 02/10/2020
+ms.author: dapine
 ---
 
 # Quickstart: Create a voice assistant with the Speech SDK, UWP

articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/quickstart-voice-assistant-java-android.md

@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ title: 'Quickstart: Custom voice assistant, Java (Android) - Speech service'
 titleSuffix: Azure Cognitive Services
 description: Learn how to create a voice assistant application in Java on Android using the Speech SDK
 services: cognitive-services
-author: trrwilson
+author: IEvangelist
 manager: nitinme
 
 ms.service: cognitive-services
 ms.subservice: speech-service
 ms.topic: quickstart
-ms.date: 12/09/2019
-ms.author: travisw
+ms.date: 02/10/2020
+ms.author: dapine
 ---
 
 # Quickstart: Create a voice assistant in Java on Android by using the Speech SDK

articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/quickstart-voice-assistant-java-jre.md

@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ title: 'Quickstart: Custom voice assistant for Java (Windows, Linux) - Speech se
 titleSuffix: Azure Cognitive Services
 description: In this quickstart, you'll learn how to use the Cognitive Services Speech SDK in a Java console application. You'll learn how you can connect your client application to a previously created Bot Framework bot configured to use the Direct Line Speech channel and enable a voice assistant experience.
 services: cognitive-services
-author: bidishac
+author: IEvangelist
 manager: nitinme
 
 ms.service: cognitive-services
 ms.subservice: speech-service
 ms.topic: quickstart
-ms.date: 11/05/2019
-ms.author: bidishac
+ms.date: 02/10/2020
+ms.author: dapine
 ---
 
 # Quickstart: Create a voice assistant with the Speech SDK, Java (Preview)

articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/quickstarts/create-luis.md

@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ title: "Quickstart: Create a LUIS key"
 titleSuffix: Azure Cognitive Services
 description: In this quickstart, you'll learn how to create a LUIS application and get a key.
 services: cognitive-services
-author: wolfma61
+author: IEvangelist
 manager: nitinme
 ms.service: cognitive-services
 ms.subservice: speech-service
 ms.topic: tutorial
-ms.date: 11/04/2019
-ms.author: wolfma
+ms.date: 02/10/2020
+ms.author: dapine
 
 # Customer intent: As a C# programmer, I want to learn how to derive speaker intent from their utterances so that I can create a conversational UI for my application.
 ---

articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/quickstarts/from-blob.md

@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ title: "Quickstart: Recognize speech stored in blob storage"
 titleSuffix: Azure Cognitive Services
 description: In this quickstart, you'll use the Batch Transcription REST API to asynchronously recognize speech stored in an SAS blob.
 services: cognitive-services
-author: erhopf
+author: IEvangelist
 manager: nitinme
 ms.service: cognitive-services
 ms.subservice: speech-service
 ms.topic: quickstart
-ms.date: 11/04/2019
-ms.author: erhopf
+ms.date: 02/10/2020
+ms.author: dapine
 zone_pivot_groups: programming-languages-set-two
 ---
 

articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/quickstarts/speech-to-text-from-file.md

@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ title: "Quickstart: Recognize speech from an audio file - Speech service"
 titleSuffix: Azure Cognitive Services
 description: In this quickstart, you'll use the Speech SDK to recognize speech from an audio file.
 services: cognitive-services
-author: erhopf
+author: IEvangelist
 manager: nitinme
 ms.service: cognitive-services
 ms.subservice: speech-service
 ms.topic: quickstart
-ms.date: 11/04/2019
-ms.author: erhopf
+ms.date: 02/10/2020
+ms.author: dapine
 zone_pivot_groups: programming-languages-set-two
 ---
 

articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/quickstarts/speech-to-text-from-microphone.md

@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ title: "Quickstart: Recognize speech from a microphone - Speech service"
 titleSuffix: Azure Cognitive Services
 description: In this quickstart, you'll use the Speech SDK to interactively recognize speech from audio data captured from a microphone.
 services: cognitive-services
-author: erhopf
+author: IEvangelist
 manager: nitinme
 ms.service: cognitive-services
 ms.subservice: speech-service
 ms.topic: quickstart
-ms.date: 12/05/2019
-ms.author: erhopf
+ms.date: 02/10/2020
+ms.author: dapine
 zone_pivot_groups: programming-languages-set-two
 ---
 

articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/quickstarts/text-to-speech-audio-file.md

@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ title: 'Quickstart: Synthesize speech into audio file - Speech service'
 titleSuffix: Azure Cognitive Services
 description: In this quickstart, you'll use the Speech SDK to convert text to synthesized speech in an audio file.
 services: cognitive-services
-author: erhopf
+author: IEvangelist
 manager: nitinme
 ms.service: cognitive-services
 ms.subservice: speech-service
 ms.topic: quickstart
-ms.date: 01/24/2020
-ms.author: erhopf
+ms.date: 02/10/2020
+ms.author: dapine
 zone_pivot_groups: programming-languages-set-two
 ---
 

articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/quickstarts/text-to-speech.md

@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ title: 'Quickstart: Synthesize speech to a speaker - Speech service'
 titleSuffix: Azure Cognitive Services
 description: In this quickstart, you will use the Speech SDK to convert text to synthesized speech and play the output on a speaker.
 services: cognitive-services
-author: erhopf
+author: IEvangelist
 manager: nitinme
 ms.service: cognitive-services
 ms.subservice: speech-service
 ms.topic: quickstart
-ms.date: 11/04/2019
-ms.author: erhopf
+ms.date: 02/10/2020
+ms.author: dapine
 zone_pivot_groups: programming-languages-set-two
 ---