Technical requirements
As with previous chapters and deployments, there are some requirements you’ll need in order to build any example for your use. First is an Azure account with a minimum of contributor rights if you’re not an owner of the subscription to be able to deploy resources. To help reduce costs for development, oftentimes, developers can use Visual Studio Code. You can download it for Windows, Linux, or macOS platforms here: https://code.visualstudio.com/download. For the examples we will display later in the chapter, you will need several extensions in Visual Studio Code, which can be downloaded directly within the tool. These extensions are as follows:
- Python as an extension:
- You’ll also need to install the Python tools on your workstation, found here: https://www.python.org/downloads/
- Speech SDK for Python (https://pypi.org/project/azure-cognitiveservices-speech/)
- Azure account
- Azure Functions
- Azure CLI Tools (not required, but...
