Microsoft Cognitive Services: Making AI Easy
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Overview of the actual capabilities: Microsoft exposes 20+ Cognitive Services APIs (vision, speech, language, knowledge, search) that return concrete outputs — computer vision gives tags and captions, face returns 27 facial landmarks and bounding boxes (up to 64 faces per image), emotion scores across 8 emotions, OCR extracts text, LUIS maps utterances to intents, and Recommendations raises sales (one customer sees ~15% lift). Demos include Project Murphy image compositing, Uber driver selfie verification, and an intelligent kiosk that overlays sunglasses and reports crowd demographics.
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chapters (34)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:02Microsoft Cognitive Services
- 6:39Scenarios
- 11:28Amish Furniture
- 12:21Uber
- 14:48Computer Vision
- 23:25FAQ
- 25:45Cognitive Services Website
- 26:28Sample Images
- 26:47Space ID
- 27:14Face Rectangle
- 28:00Really cool stuff
- 28:44Facial identification
- 31:41Demo
- 35:20Emotion
- 37:07Speech
- 38:01Text to Speech
- 38:57Speaker Recognition
- 40:22Language Support
- 41:40Language Services
- 43:08Text Analytics
- 44:40Text Analytics Example
- 45:31Text Analytics Results
- 47:19Unconscious Bias
- 47:41Luis
- 52:28Export whole app
- 53:20Map to intent
- 53:58Suggested questions
- 55:47No Not You
- 56:01Knowledge API
- 56:35Search API
- 56:52Project Murphy
- 58:29Feedback
- 59:22Timeout
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