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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services,

Use Cognitive Services APIs to add AI capabilities to your applications

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|Oct 2018
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Explore a range of Cognitive Services APIs to integrate human-like cognitive capabilities in your applications

Key Features

  • Build applications with computer vision, speech recognition, and language processing capabilities
  • Process and analyze data in the form of text, images, and videos
  • Build smarter applications in Visual Studio using real-world examples

Book Description

Microsoft Cognitive Services is a set of APIs for integrating artificial intelligence in your applications to solve logical business problems. If you’re new to developing applications with AI, Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services will give you a comprehensive introduction to Microsoft’s AI stack and get you up-to-speed in no time.

The book introduces you to 24 APIs, including Emotion, Language, Vision, Speech, Knowledge, and Search. Using Visual Studio, you can develop applications with enhanced capabilities for image processing, speech recognition, text processing, and much more. Moving forward, you will work with datasets that enable your applications to process various data in the form of image, video, or text.

By the end of the book, you’ll be able to confidently explore Cognitive Services APIs for building intelligent applications that can be deployed for real-world business uses.

What you will learn

  • Identify a person through visual and audio inspection
  • Reduce user effort by utilizing AI capabilities
  • Understand how to analyze images and text in different ways
  • Add video and image analysis to applications using Vision APIs
  • Use the Search API to find anything you want from your database
  • Analyze text to extract information and explore text structure

Who this book is for

If you’re a developer or machine learning enthusiast who wants to get started with building intelligent applications, this book is for you. Though you’re not expected to have much programming experience, some knowledge of .NET and Visual Studio will help you undertake the tasks explained in this book easily.

Table of Contents

  1. Getting Started with Microsoft Cognitive Services
  2. Analyzing Images to Recognize a Face
  3. Analyzing Videos
  4. Letting Applications Understand Commands
  5. Speaking with Your Application
  6. Understanding Text
  7. Extending Knowledge Based on Context
  8. Querying Structured Data in a Natural Way
  9. Adding Specialized Searches
  10. Connecting the Pieces
  11. Appendix A: LUIS Entities and Additional Information on Linguistic Analysis
  12. Appendix B: License Information
https://github.com/packtpublishing/learning-microsoft-cognitive-services
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78980-368-6
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2018 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 312