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# Provisioning your Cognitive Speech Services

Before we start making use of these services, we need to provision them first! This is a relatively quick process:

1. In your Azure Portal, navigate to the Resource Group that will be housing your cognitive services API deployment
2. Select the Create button<br>

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3. Search for "Speech" and proceed to create the resource\
   ![](/files/viw0ZVVX5VCk5OllGECn)
4. Set the deployment options<br>

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   **Be mindful of the pricing tier. The free SKU does&#x20;*****not*****&#x20;currently support batch transcriptions. While the standard S0 tier will cost you some money, the rate for speech transcription is currently about $0.0003 per second, or $0.016 per minute, which should be pretty negligible for our usage**
5. Proceed directly to the Review + Create screen and provision the resource