Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services: An Overview

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have been the talk of the tech world for the past few years. From Siri to Netflix, it’s embedded in the majority of the technology we use daily. These technologies use methods of classification and data analysis and predict data that can mimic human behavior.

There are numerous services available that allow people to make use of cognitive intelligence. However, certain services require you to have AI or Data science skills. Fortunately, Microsoft Azure has introduced services that allow people to avail Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning services. This service is known as Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services.

If you’re clueless about what Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services are, we’re here to help you out. Here’s an overview of Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services.

What Are Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services?

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services are cloud-based services that offer a collection of REST APIs and tools that help developers incorporate cognitive features within applications. What makes Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services valuable is that you don’t need to know or be familiar with data science concepts.

Types of Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services

Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services offers a variety of features that can be implemented in your application. All you need to do is call the REST API to the preferred services in Azure and leave the rest of the job to Azure.

These services are compatible with all programming platforms and can be used to integrate AI into diverse applications with zero coding endeavor. Developers can use these APIs to give their software the capacity to hear, understand, talk, see, and make decisions.

Azure Cognitive services offer mainly five types of services:

1. Vision

2. Speech

3. Language

4. Decision

5. Search

Vision

Microsoft Azure’s vision services scrutinize visual content such as GIFs, videos, images that can spot and identify the objects in that particular content. When implemented in apps, can identify and categorize those objects based on various classifications.

Microsoft Azure’s vision services include custom vision, form recognizer, computer vision, and video indexer.

Speech

Microsoft Azure’s speech services allow applications to process the speech and translate it to written content and vice versa. Furthermore, Microsoft Azure’s vision service translates the text to various other languages.

Microsoft Azure’s speech services include two significant functions mentioned above: text to speech conversion and vice versa, speaker recognition, and language translation.

Language

Microsoft Azure’s language services scrutinize the text to evaluate its meaning. Microsoft Azure’s language services consist of an immersive reader and language understanding.

Decision

Microsoft Azure’s Decision APIs are responsible for evaluating data and patterns to function efficiently and ensure qualified decision-making. Decision services have a function known as anomaly detectors and content moderators.

Search

Microsoft Azure’s Search APIs augment searching experiences on the internet. These web search APIs can include Bing Autosuggest, Bing Entity Search, Bing Custom Search, Bing Image Search, Bing News Search, Bing Web Search, Bing Video Search, Bing Visual Search, and Bing Spell Check.

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