What are Microsoft Cognitive Services?
Exploring the world of Microsoft Cognitive Services can be an eye-opening and transformative experience for any developer. Cognitive services allow you to integrate artificial intelligence models into applications without needing to be an AI expert. These services are pre-trained models that offer advanced functionality by simply making API calls. Throughout this course, you will learn how to implement them to enrich your applications.
What are the categories of cognitive services?
Microsoft offers five main categories of cognitive services:
- Vision: allows you to analyze images to obtain contextual information and specific details such as facial and object recognition.
- Speech: Offers text-to-speech and speech-to-speech conversion, speaker recognition and spoken text translation.
- Language: Facilitates the understanding of intentions and entities in text through services such as Luis and QnA Maker.
- Decision: Helps detect anomalies, moderate content and personalize experiences for end users.
- Search: Enrich search indexes with advanced services to improve the ability to locate information.
What does the vision category offer?
This category allows you to analyze images beyond the visually obvious. Services include:
- Computer vision: Identification of objects and context in images.
- Facial recognition: Analysis of facial expressions, age and gender estimation.
- Personalized vision: Training models with specific images to personalize the experience.
How do voice services work?
The speech category focuses on verbal interaction, enabling:
- Speech-to-text and text-to-speech conversion: Integrate more effective communications into applications.
- Speaker recognition: Identify people through their voices.
- Spoken text translation: Facilitate multilingual communication.
What are the benefits of the language category?
Language services improve textual comprehension through:
- Luis: Integrates bots capable of understanding the intent behind interactions and extracting entities.
- QnA Maker: Configures more efficient question and answer systems.
- Text analytics: Identifies connotations, keywords and performs automatic translations.
What is included in the decision category?
Decision services provide analytical intelligence through:
- Anomaly detection: Identifying unusual patterns that could indicate problems.
- Content moderation: Detecting sensitive or inappropriate information.
- Personalizing experiences: Improving end-user interaction.
How to enrich searches with cognitive services?
The integration of cognitive services in the search category allows:
- Build rich indexes from unstructured documents such as PDFs and images.
- Detect key phrases and perform advanced recognition, such as face detection and celebrity recognition.
- Enable automatic translations and structuring of information to facilitate more effective searches.
These services represent a powerful tool for any developer looking to innovate with artificial intelligence. We invite you to continue exploring each category in detail in the next classes, where you will learn how to implement these services directly in your applications. With the use of cognitive services, innovation is accessible and achievable.
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