Enables Azure AI services across all model layers so users with Azure
credits can consolidate billing on a single provider.
- Voice (TTS): AzureSpeechTTSConfiguration via azure_speech provider
- Transcriber (STT): AzureSpeechSTTConfiguration via azure_speech provider
- Embedding: AzureOpenAIEmbeddingsConfiguration via azure provider
- Realtime: AzureRealtimeLLMConfiguration via azure_realtime provider
New files:
- api/services/pipecat/realtime/azure_realtime.py
- api/services/gen_ai/embedding/azure_openai_service.py
- api/tests/test_azure_speech_service_factory.py
The UI picks up all four providers automatically from the schema —
no frontend changes required.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>