Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services For Developers

Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

Create intelligent apps with vision, speech, language, and knowledge capabilities using Microsoft Cognitive Services About This Book Explore the capabilities of all 21 APIs released as part of the Cognitive Services platform Build intelligent apps that combine the power of computer vision, speech recognition, and language processing Give your apps human-like cognitive intelligence with this hands-on guide Who This Book Is For .NET developers who want to add AI capabilities to their applications will find this book useful. No knowledge of machine learning or AI is expected to follow this book. What You Will Learn Identify a person through visual inspection and audio Reduce user effort by utilizing AI-like capabilities Understand how to analyze images and text in different manners Find out how to analyze images using Vision APIs Add video analysis to applications using Vision APIs Utilize Search to find anything you want Analyze text to extract information and explore the structure of the text In Detail Microsoft has revamped its Project Oxford to launch the all new Cognitive Services platform—a set of 21 APIs to add speech, vision, language, and knowledge capabilities to apps. This book will introduce you to all 21 APIs released as part of Cognitive Services platform and show you how to leverage their capabilities. More importantly, you'll see how the power of these APIs can be combined to build real-world apps that have cognitive capabilities. The book is split into three sections: computer vision, speech recognition and language processing, and knowledge and search. You will be taken through the vision APIs at first as this is very visual, and not too complex. The next part revolves around speech and language, which are somewhat connected. The last part is about adding real-world intelligence to apps by connecting them to Knowledge and Search APIs. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to understand what Microsoft Cognitive Service can offer and how to use the different APIs. Style and approach This book adopts a step-by-step approach, covering the different APIs with a combination of theory and examples.

Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services for Developers

Learning Microsoft Azure

If your organization plans to modernize services and move to the cloud from legacy software or a private cloud on premises, this book is for you. Software developers, solution architects, cloud engineers, and anybody interested in cloud technologies will learn fundamental concepts for cloud computing, migration, transformation, and development using Microsoft Azure. Author and Microsoft MVP Jonah Carrio Andersson guides you through cloud computing concepts and deployment models, the wide range of modern cloud technologies, application development with Azure, team collaboration services, security services, and cloud migration options in Microsoft Azure. You'll gain insight into the Microsoft Azure cloud services that you can apply in different business use cases, software development projects, and modern solutions in the cloud. You'll also become fluent with Azure cloud migration services, serverless computing technologies that help your development team work productively, Azure IoT, and Azure cognitive services that make your application smarter. This book also provides real-world advice and best practices based on the author's own Azure migration experience. Gain insight into which Azure cloud service best suits your company's particular needs Understand how to use Azure for different use cases and specific technical requirements Start developing cloud services, applications, and solutions in the Azure environment Learn how to migrate existing legacy applications to Microsoft Azure