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Audio AI: Speech Recognition, Synthesis, and Analysis for Data Applications
Audio AI adds a new dimension to data applications. Start with transcription use cases and expand to voice interfaces as your needs evolve.
Cognitive Services
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Azure Cognitive Services for Computer Vision: Current Capabilities
Explore Azure Cognitive Services Computer Vision capabilities for image analysis, OCR, and object detection in your applications.
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Cognitive Services in Azure Synapse: Built-in AI Capabilities
Cognitive Services in Synapse brings AI capabilities directly into your data engineering workflows. Process millions of records with sentiment, entities…
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Running Azure Cognitive Services in Containers
Latency : Process locally instead of round trips to Azure Offline capability : Work without internet connectivity Data residency : Keep data on premises…
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Azure Cognitive Services Updates: What's New in Early 2023
GPT 4 integration in Azure OpenAI More neural voice options Enhanced document understanding Improved multi modal capabilities What's New in Azure AI Azure…
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Azure Cognitive Services Updates: OpenAI Integration and More
Cognitive Services now includes Azure OpenAI Service, bringing GPT models into the Cognitive Services family: The new Image Analysis API includes enhanced…
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Azure Immersive Reader: Building Accessible Reading Experiences
The service provides: Read Aloud : Text to speech with word highlighting Text Preferences : Font size, spacing, and background colors Grammar Tools :…
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Azure Cognitive Services Updates: What's New in Early 2022
The new Computer Vision API brings significant improvements: Analyze people movement in physical spaces: The new unified Language service includes enhanced…
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Azure OpenAI Service Announced: What We Know About the Limited Preview
This announcement is exciting for the enterprise AI space. The combination of OpenAI's powerful models with Azure's enterprise infrastructure addresses a…
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Document Translation at Scale with Azure Cognitive Services
Document Translation enables global content delivery by making document localization efficient and scalable.
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Named Entity Recognition with Azure Cognitive Services
Named Entity Recognition is essential for extracting structured information from unstructured text, enabling applications from search enhancement to…
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Extracting Key Phrases from Text with Azure Cognitive Services
Key phrase extraction is a foundational NLP capability that enables efficient processing of large text collections and powers intelligent content management…
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Text Analytics with Azure Cognitive Services
Text Analytics enables rich understanding of unstructured text, powering applications from customer feedback analysis to content recommendation systems.
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Building Conversational AI with Azure Language Understanding (LUIS)
LUIS enables natural language understanding that powers conversational interfaces, making applications more intuitive and user-friendly.
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Implementing Speaker Recognition with Azure Cognitive Services
Speaker Recognition enables secure, frictionless authentication and personalized experiences based on voice identity.
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Creating Natural Voice Experiences with Azure Text-to-Speech
Azure Text-to-Speech enables natural voice experiences across applications, from virtual assistants to accessibility features.
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Building Speech-to-Text Applications with Azure Cognitive Services
Azure Speech-to-Text is the service I've used in two distinct modes: real-time transcription for live meeting captions and voice-activated applications, and…
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Deploying Cognitive Services on Azure IoT Edge
IoT Edge with Cognitive Services enables intelligent edge scenarios, bringing AI capabilities directly to where data is generated.
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Running Azure Cognitive Services in Containers
Vision : Read (OCR), Spatial Analysis Language : Sentiment Analysis, Key Phrase Extraction, Language Detection, Text Analytics for Health Speech : Speech to…
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Azure Cognitive Services: Building Intelligent Applications
Cognitive Services in mid-2021 is a sprawling catalogue—vision, speech, language, decision—that can be disorienting to navigate. Today's post is the…
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Azure Applied AI Services: Pre-Built AI for Common Scenarios
Applied AI Services are Microsoft's answer to "I need AI in this process, but I don't want to wire up five Cognitive Services and build the integration…
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Time Series Anomaly Detection with Azure Anomaly Detector
Anomaly Detector is the Cognitive Service I pull out when someone asks "can you tell us when something goes wrong?" and the answer is "I don't know exactly…
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Image Analysis with Azure Computer Vision
Computer Vision is the Cognitive Service that covers the "I have an image and I need to know what's in it" scenario without training a custom model. Read…
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Multilingual Applications with Azure Translator
Azure Translator is one of the Cognitive Services that I've shipped most quietly—it tends to be a two-day integration rather than a headline feature, but…
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Natural Language Understanding with LUIS
Intents : Categories of user actions (e.g., BookFlight, GetWeather) Entities : Important data to extract (e.g., locations, dates, quantities) Utterances :…
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Building FAQ Bots with QnA Maker
QnA Maker simplifies building knowledge based chatbots: Easy content import from URLs, documents, and manual entry Natural language understanding for…
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Azure Cognitive Services Speech - Voice-Enabled Applications
Azure Speech Services enable rich voice experiences: Speech to Text : Real time transcription with high accuracy Text to Speech : Natural sounding neural…
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Building Personalized Experiences with Azure Cognitive Services Personalizer
Most recommendation systems I've seen in enterprise settings are either "sort by recency" in a trench coat, or a Spark job that runs weekly and calls itself…
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Intelligent Document Processing with Azure Form Recognizer
An accounts payable team I worked with last quarter was processing 4,000 invoices a month by hand—open the PDF, retype line items into the ERP, repeat. The…
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Azure Cognitive Services Containers: AI On-Premises
"Can I use Cognitive Services if my data can never leave the country?" I get this question from public-sector and healthcare clients constantly. The answer…
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Azure Form Recognizer: Extract Data from Documents
A second pass at Form Recognizer, focused on what's changed since I last wrote about it. The prebuilt invoice and receipt models keep getting better — the…
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Azure Cognitive Services: AI APIs for Every Developer
"We want AI in my app" is a sentence I hear at least twice a month. Eight times out of ten the answer isn't "train a custom model" — it's "use Cognitive…
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Extracting Data from Documents with Azure Form Recognizer
Every accounts payable team I've ever talked to has a person whose job is, in part, retyping data from PDF invoices into an ERP. It's exhausting work, the…
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Analyzing Text with Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics
A retail client this week handed me six months of customer feedback in a CSV and asked the question I get every couple of months: "what are people actually…