Speech to text is not working

Hi ˇMahesh Pratap Singh alias Yogi M. P. Singh ,

Thank you for sharing the additional details and your observations.

From your description, this appears to be different from an application-level Speech SDK issue. You mentioned that Windows Voice Typing (Win + H) is listening but never returns transcribed text, eventually timing out, and that you are seeing a service availability message when attempting related connectivity checks.

However, the information provided in this thread is not sufficient to confirm a service-side outage. To help determine whether the issue is related to the client device, network connectivity, or a backend service problem, could you please provide:

• Your Windows version and build.
• Whether the issue occurs on multiple networks (for example, home network vs. mobile hotspot).
• Whether other cloud-powered Windows features are working normally.
• A screenshot of the exact "Our services aren't available right now" message you referenced.

For developers using Azure Speech, a useful validation step is to run the official Speech-to-Text quickstart against the same Speech resource to determine whether the issue is specific to the application or affects the service more broadly.

If recognition requests are being cancelled or timing out, enabling Speech SDK logging and capturing the cancellation details can provide additional diagnostic information.

Thanks again for reporting what you're seeing. Additional details will help determine whether this is a local voice typing issue or a broader service connectivity problem.

You haven't filled out the entire troubleshooting template, so there isn’t enough information to identify a Speech service failure yet.

To narrow down your issue, I would make 2 checks:

• Run the same input through the documented speech-to-text quickstart using the same Speech resource, region, and locale. This separates an application/audio-pipeline issue from resource configuration.
• If the result is Canceled or recognition stalls, capture the cancellation details and enable Speech SDK logging. Include the SDK version, platform, audio format, region, and the exact ErrorCode/ErrorDetails in the question.

If this is long-running or streaming audio, also verify that the app is using continuous recognition rather than RecognizeOnceAsync, which is intended for a single utterance.