Build smarter applications with AI capabilities using Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs without much hassle Key Features Explore the Cognitive Services APIs for building machine learning applications Build applications with computer vision, speech recognition, and language processing capabilities Learn to implement human-like cognitive intelligence for your applications Book DescriptionMicrosoft Cognitive Services is a set of APIs for adding intelligence to your application and leverage the power of AI to solve any business problem using the cognitive capabilities. This book will be your practical guide to working with cognitive APIs developed by Microsoft and provided with the Azure platform to developers and businesses. You will learn to integrate the APIs with your applications in Visual Studio. The book introduces you to about 24 APIs including Emotion, Language, Vision, Speech, Knowledge, and Search among others. With the easy-to-follow examples you will be able to develop applications for image processing, speech recognition, text procession, and so on to enhance the capability of your applications to perform more human-like tasks. Going ahead, the book will help you work with the datasets that enable your applications to process various data in form of image, videos, and texts. By the end of the book, you will get confident to explore the Cognitive Services APIs for your applications and make them intelligent for deploying in businesses. What you will learn Identify a person through visual and audio inspection Reduce user effort by utilizing AI-like capabilities Understand how to analyze images and texts in different ways 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 text structure Who this book is forLearning Microsoft Cognitive Services is for developers and machine learning enthusiasts who want to get started with building intelligent applications without much programming knowledge. Some prior knowledge of .NET and Visual Studio will help you undertake the tasks explained in this book.

Learn to build interactive and efficient applications by leveraging 24 effective cognitive services APIs powered by Microsoft About This Book * Explore the capabilities of 24 of the 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 necessary to work through 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 ways * 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 text structure In Detail Microsoft has revamped its Project Oxford to launch the all new Cognitive Services platform-a set of 30 APIs to add speech, vision, language, and knowledge capabilities to apps. This book will introduce you to 24 of the 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 takes you through essential API capabilities and shows how to utilize them to suit the needs of your application.

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.