Public preview: Speech SDK 0.5.0 for Cognitive Services

The 0.5.0 update to the [Speech SDK for Azure Cognitive Services](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/) was just released in preview. This update adds support for [UWP](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/quickstart-csharp-uwp) (on Windows version 1709), [.NET Standard 2.0](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/quickstart-csharp-netcore-windows) (on Windows), and [Java](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/quickstart-java-android) on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow, API level 23) or later. It also includes feature changes and bug fixes. Most notably, we now support long-running audio and automatic reconnection. This will make the Speech service more resilient in the event of time-out, network failures, or service errors. We’ve also improved error messages to make it easier to handle errors. For details, see the [release notes](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/releasenotes). You can [try the Microsoft Speech service for free](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/get-started). To learn more and review sample code, see the [documentation page](https://aka.ms/csspeech). Let us know if you have questions or feedback via [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/microsoft-cognitive) by using the tag **microsoft-cognitive**. You can also append specific area topic tags to the URL by adding “+\[tagName\]” like: * speech-recognition * speech-to-text * text-to-speech * microsoft-speech-api * Azure Cognitive Services * SDK and Tools * [ Azure Cognitive Services](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/cognitive-services/)