Azure Media Indexer is being retired
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In September 2018, we announced the [general availability of Azure Video Indexer](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/video-indexer-general-availability-and-beyond/). This service is built on the capabilities of Azure Media Analytics, Azure Search and Cognitive Services; and enables you to extract a rich set of machine learning insights based on multiple channels of your media files, all integrated together in one call and on a shared timeline. As part of the service, we integrate a centralised speech-to-text model with Microsoft that is dramatically more advanced then the Indexer speech-to-text model.
Because Video Indexer capabilities replace and provide more capabilities and advancements in speech-to-text, languages, translations, speaker identification and more, we are retiring:
* The legacy Azure Media Indexer v1 on **1 March 2023**. This was previously communicated as 1 October 2020.
* The Azure Media Indexer v2 preview on **1 January 2020**.
**How does this affect me?**
After the retirement dates above, applications that you have developed using Media Indexer may begin experiencing errors or failed job submissions.
**What actions should I take?**
If you require a solution that provides any of the following, then you will need to update your applications to use the Azure Video Indexer capabilities through the [Video Indexer v2 REST API](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/media-services/video-indexer/video-indexer-overview) or the Audio Analyzer preset in the [Azure Media Services v3 API](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/media-services/latest/analyzing-video-audio-files-concept), before the retirement date:
* speech-to-text
* closed captioning
* topic inferencing
* acoustic events
* speaker statistics
* keyword and brand extraction
* translation
* or anything else from our [full list of insights](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/media-services/video-indexer/video-indexer-overview#audio-insights)
If you only need speech-to-text capabilities, then you will need to update your applications to use the [Cognitive Service Speech API](https://azure.microsoft.com/services/cognitive-services/speech-to-text/).
If you are in our Azure Government cloud, these replacement options will be available in the coming months.
[Learn more](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/media-services/video-indexer/video-indexer-overview) about the retirement of Azure Media Services Indexer.
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