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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

You're reading from Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services Create intelligent apps with vision, speech, language, and knowledge capabilities using Microsoft Cognitive Services

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786467843

Length 372 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

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Microsoft Cognitive Services

Concepts

Artificial Intelligence

Author (1):

Leif Larsen Henning Larsen

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

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Preface

1. Getting Started with Microsoft Cognitive Services

2. Analyzing Images to Recognize a Face FREE CHAPTER

3. Analyzing Videos

4. Letting Applications Understand Commands

5. Speak with Your Application

6. Understanding Text

7. Extending Knowledge Based on Context

8. Querying Structured Data in a Natural Way

9. Adding Specialized Searches

10. Connecting the Pieces

LUIS Entities and Intents

Additional Information on Linguistic Analysis

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Summary

Throughout this chapter we got a brief introduction to Microsoft Cognitive Services. We started off by creating a template project, to easily create new projects for the coming chapters. We tried this template by creating an example project for this chapter. Then we learned how to detect faces in images, utilizing the Face API. From there we took a quick tour of what Cognitive Services has to offer. We finished off by adding text-to-speech capabilities to our application, by using the Bing Speech API.

The next chapter will go into more details of the Vision part of the APIs. There we will learn how to analyze images using the Computer Vision API. We will dive more into the Face API, and we will learn how to detect emotions in faces, using the Emotion API. Some of this will be used to start building our smart house application.

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Authors (1)

Leif Larsen Henning Larsen

Leif Larsen Henning Larsen

Leif Larsen is a software engineer based in Norway. After earning a degree in computer engineering, he went on to work with the design and configuration of industrial control systems, for the most part, in the oil and gas industry. Over the last few years, he has worked as a developer, developing and maintaining geographical information systems, working with .NET technology. Today, he is working with a start-up, developing a brand new SaaS product. In his spare time, he develops mobile apps and explores new technologies to keep up with the high-paced tech world. You can find out more about him by checking out his blog, "Leif Larsen", and following him on Twitter (@leif_larsen) and LinkedIn (lhlarsen).

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