# Dong Li

> Dong Li is partner Director; Head of Product at Azure Speech and Voice Agents. Azure AI Speech speech-to-text, Azure AI Speech text-to-speech and Azure Translator on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-27

Partner Director; Head of Product, Azure Speech and Voice Agents.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dong-li-19956ba3/

## What Dong builds

- [Azure AI Speech speech-to-text](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-speech-to-text.md), graded BB, 73.1/100, in Speech-to-text. Azure's speech-to-text service for transcribing audio. Partner Director; Head of Product, Azure Speech and Voice Agents, researched 2026-10-26.
- [Azure AI Speech text-to-speech](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-text-to-speech.md), graded BB, 71.5/100, in Text-to-speech. Azure's text-to-speech service for generating spoken audio. Partner Director; Head of Product, Azure Speech and Voice Agents, researched 2026-10-26.
- [Azure Translator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-translator.md), graded BB, 72/100, in Translation. Microsoft's translation API, now part of Foundry Tools. Partner Director; Head of Product, Azure Speech and Voice Agents, researched 2026-10-26.

## Works with

- [Achint Srivastava](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/achint-srivastava/), VP of Software Engineering, Office of the CTO; Decision-1 launch author
- [Bill Gates](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/bill-gates/), Co-founder, Microsoft
- [Brandon Werner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brandon-werner/), Principal Product Architect; Agent ID creator
- [Dan Hellem](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/dan-hellem/), Principal Product Manager, Azure DevOps
- [Darrel Miller](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/darrel-miller/), Partner API Architect
- [Eric Imasogie](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/eric-imasogie/), Senior Product Manager; Microsoft Learn MCP server owner
- [Faraz Siddiqui](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/faraz-siddiqui/), Senior Technical Program Manager; Product Manager for Azure Maps Geospatial APIs
- [Gary Pretty](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/gary-pretty/), Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Copilot Studio
- [Julie Strauss](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/julie-strauss/), Vice President, AI Sales, Marketing and Incubations
- [Paul Allen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/paul-allen/), Co-founder, Microsoft
- [Pieter de Bruin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pieter-de-bruin/), Technical Program Manager; Learn partnerships and MCP integrations
- [Sandeep K Sen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sandeep-k-sen/), Product Manager, Azure MCP and CoreAI
- [Shawn Henry](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shawn-henry/), Principal Group Product Manager; Product Lead, Microsoft Agent Framework
- [Tianqi Zhang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tianqi-zhang/), Principal Software Engineering Manager; Learn knowledge-discovery and MCP team
- [Vamshidhar Kommineni](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/vamshidhar-kommineni/), Group Product Manager, Azure Storage
- [Yury Semikhatsky](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/yury-semikhatsky/), Principal Software Engineer; active Playwright MCP maintainer

## Questions

### Who is Dong Li?

Dong Li is partner Director; Head of Product at Azure Speech and Voice Agents.

### What does Microsoft make?

Anchor Terminal lists Azure AI Speech speech-to-text, Azure AI Speech text-to-speech and Azure Translator from Microsoft. Azure's speech-to-text service for transcribing audio.

### How are Dong's tools graded?

Azure AI Speech speech-to-text is graded BB, 73.1 out of 100; Azure AI Speech text-to-speech is graded BB, 71.5 out of 100; Azure Translator is graded BB, 72 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/dong-li-19956ba3/
- https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/leadership/bill-gates
- https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/verified-accounts
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft/
- https://x.com/Microsoft/with_replies
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/
- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us

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