Integrating Azure Bot with Azure Speech Services - azure

Is there a possible way to integrate the speech services with bot? So i would like to know what is the process that goes in the integration of Speech Services with Bot?
How is it possible to do the integration with bot through the key that is obtained from the Azure Speech Service created?
And how to check whether the created Speech Services is working?
Is there any common portal for the Speech Services to be tested like the portal for custom speech(https://westus.cris.ai/Home/CustomSpeech)?
And What are the different ways for integrating?

To test the speech service whether works, you can use the code sample provided by Microsoft without write addition code. Refer to the Next steps section of Text to Speech
Or you can make the REST API using POST man according the documentation.
And to integrate the Speech Service with Bot, you can refer the figure below:

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