Microsoft Cognitive Services

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@pawel_lukasik

What are Microsoft Cognitive Services?

Put intelligence APIs to work

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Vision
Speech
Language

Knowledge

Search

VISION

  • face recognition
  • categorizing
  • emotions
  • content moderation
  • video

SPEECH

  • Text to speech
  • Speaker validation
  • Speaker selection

LANGUAGE

  • spellcheck
  • language understanding (LUIS)
  • text analytics
  • translator
  • text sentiment

KNOWLEDGE

  • academic
  • entity linking
  • knowledge exploration
  • Q&A maker
  • recommendations

SEARCH

  • auto suggest
  • image search
  • news search
  • video search
  • web search

MS Cognitive Services

  • "REST" API
  • no nugets
  • easy to start/using

Demo time

Cost?

  • free for limited amount of calls
  • $$$ if need moar!

Applications?

  • Fake news detector
  • celebrities look like me
  • WIZR

What's next?

Cognitive Toolkit

 

A free, easy-to-use, open-source, commercial-grade toolkit that trains deep learning algorithms to learn like the human brain.

 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/cognitive-toolkit/

Links

  • /blog
  • /documentation
  • /SDK-sample

https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us

https://github.com/pawlos/cognitive-demos

https://slides.com/pawellukasik

Q & A?

Feedback?

Microsoft Cognitive Services

Vision, Speech, Language, Knowledge, Search 

Paweł Łukasik, @lukasik_pawel

Microsoft Cognitive Services - online

By Pawel Lukasik

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