Azure AI Speech — Speech-to-Text Transcribe audio to text with Azure Fast Transcription — synchronous, word-level timestamps, speaker diarization, and multi-language identification. In OpenMontage this is exposed through the tool ( , ). It is an optional cloud STT provider — when is configured, prefer it for cloud transcription. The local tool (faster-whisper) remains the default offline path and the fallback when Azure is unavailable. Docs: Fast Transcription · Speech service overview Why Fast Transcription (not Batch) Azure exposes three STT surfaces. OpenMontage uses Fast Transcription bec…