Cognitive Services:

The Brains Behind Your Bot

About Me

The Bot Revolution

Is Here

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Bots Are Not New

What’s Changed

Machine Learning

Bots Are Only As Good As Their Brains

LanguageProcess text and learn how to recognize what users want

What makes a Bot Smart?

Speech

Language Understanding Intelligent Service

Teach your apps to understand commands

from your users

Linguistic Analysis API

Easily parse complex text with language analysis

Text Analytics API

Detect sentiment, key phrases, topics, and language

from your text

Language

SpeechHear and speak to your users by filtering noise, identifying speakers, and understanding intent

LanguageProcess text and learn how to recognize what users want

What makes a Bot Smart?

Speech

Speech APIConvert speech to text and back again, and understand

its intent

Speaker Recognition API

Give your app the ability to know who's talking

Custom Recognition Intelligent Service

Fine-tune speech recognition for anyone,

anywhere

KnowledgeTap into rich knowledge amassed from the web, academia, or your own data

SpeechHear and speak to your users by filtering noise, identifying speakers, and understanding intent

LanguageProcess text and learn how to recognize what users want

What makes a Bot Smart?

LanguageKnowledge

Academic Knowledge APIExplore relationships

among academic papers, journals, and authors

Recommendations API

Provide personalized product recommendations

for your customers

Knowledge Exploration ServiceAdd interactive search over

structured data to your project

KnowledgeTap into rich knowledge amassed from the web, academia, or your own data

SearchAccess billions of web pages, images, videos, and news

SpeechHear and speak to your users by filtering noise, identifying speakers, and understanding intent

LanguageProcess text and learn how to recognize what users want

What makes a Bot Smart?

KnowledgeSearch

Web Search API

Connect powerful search to your apps

Video Search API

Trending videos, detailed metadata,

and rich results

Autosuggest API

Give your app intelligent autosuggest options for

searches

Image Search API

Bring advanced image and metadata search

to your app

News Search API

Link your users to robust and timely

news searches

KnowledgeTap into rich knowledge amassed from the web, academia, or your own data

SearchAccess billions of web pages, images, videos, and news

SpeechHear and speak to your users by filtering noise, identifying speakers, and understanding intent

LanguageProcess text and learn how to recognize what users want

What makes a Bot Smart?

VisionFrom faces to feelings, allow your apps to understand images and video

Computer Vision API

Distill actionable information from images

Video APIAnalyze, edit, and

process videos within your app

Face APIDetect, identify, analyze, organize, and tag faces in

photos

Emotion APIPersonalize experiences

with emotion recognition

Vision

Roll your own with REST APIs

Simple to add: just a few lines of code required

Scalable

Integrate into the language and platform of your choice

Breadth of offerings helps you find the right API for your app

Built by experts in their field from Quality documentation, sample code, and community support

Easy Flexible Tested

Why Use Cognitive Services?

GET A

KEY BUILD

Examples

VisionLanguage Understanding Intelligent Service

Understand what your users are saying

• Determines intent• Detects entities

Seamless integration with Speech Recognition

Learns over time

Use pre-built, world class models from Bing and Cortana

Intent: TextToSpeechContent: NewsHeadlines

Read me the headlines

Play yesterday’s Daily Show

Intent: PauseDeviceDateTime.duration: 5 Minutes

Pause for 5 minutes

Intent: PlayEpisodeContent: Daily ShowDateTime.date: T-1 Day

Sentiment Analysis

Real Time Crowd Insights

Computer Vision

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

Image Captioning – celebrity detection

https://www.captionbot.ai

Developer Resources

Preview Pricinghttps://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/pricing

Documentationhttps://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/computer-vision-api/documentation

Client SDKshttps://github.com/Microsoft/ProjectOxford-ClientSDKhttps://github.com/felixrieseberg/project-oxford (nodejs)https://github.com/southwood/project-oxford-python

Example Codehttps://github.com/jsturtevant/happy-image-tester-djangohttps://github.com/jsturtevant/happy-image-tester-nodejs

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