Building a Universal Translator with Azure Cognitive Services Part One: Recording Speech in a Browser

This is Part 1 of a 3-part series that demonstrates how to use Azure Cognitive Services to build a universal translator that can take a recording of a person’s speech, convert it to text, translate it to another language, and then read it back using text-to-speech. In this article, we begin by writing the web frontend with React, then hosting the code as an Azure static web application.