A lot has happened since we announced that Speech services is now in preview, we have released the Cognitive Services Speech SDK June 2018 update.
Today, we are excited to announce that we have just released the 0.5.0 version of the Speech SDK. With this update, we have added support for UWP (on Windows version 1709), .NET Standard 2.0 (on Windows), and Java on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow, API level 23) or higher. We have made some feature changes and done some bug fixes. Most notably, we now support long-running audio and automatic reconnection. This will make the Speech service more resilient overall, in the event of timeout, network failures or service errors. We’ve also improved the error messages to make it easier to handle the errors. Please visit the Release Notes page for details. We will continue to add support for more platforms and programming languages, as we work toward making the Speech SDK generally available this fall.
Read about it in the Azure blog.