Heiko Rahmel

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Heiko Rahmel is a Principal PM for Microsoft’s Azure AI Speech Service. He has been working on speech technology and its application for over 25 years. His latest focus is on the development and enhancement of the Speech to text capabilities of Azure AI Speech and on empowering 3rd parties to leverage Microsoft's speech technologies to extract information from speech-based interactions, make them more accessible as well as to build compelling speech-based user experiences.

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Let your agentic apps talk with Azure Speech

2025-11-20 · Microsoft Ignite 2025 Watch

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with Heiko Rahmel (Microsoft) , Sidd Shah (healow) , Jacky Kang (Microsoft) , James McMahon (Capgemini)

AI/ML API Azure

Experience next generation of Azure Speech. Whether you’re building voice-enabled apps, intelligent customer-service AI Agents, or multimodal translation tools, these new capabilities will empower you to create voice experiences that are faster, smarter, and more engaging than ever. We will spotlight Voice Live API (now generally available) which helps you build real-time voice agents. We will also unveil new APIs that leverage large language models to unlock new capabilities.