Easier AI allows everyone to build smart apps
summary
Live demos show how to call Azure Cognitive Services REST APIs (vision, face, emotion, OCR, translator, LUIS, text analytics) and embed them in apps using Azure Functions to protect keys. A Menu Explorer app uses OCR + Translator + Bing/Google Image Search to translate menus and fetch photos; the custom vision demo trains on ~1,000 images (38 bird classes), exports models to TensorFlow/CoreML, and runs an Ionic mobile app; free tier is 30,000 calls/month (20 calls/min), paid ≈ $0.013 per 1,000 calls. Emotion scores return probabilities (example faces 99.9%, 99.5%, 99.9999%, 97%); demos mostly work though Wi‑Fi limits some live captions.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 8:03Cognitive Services
- 9:50How to use Cognitive Services
- 16:28Image API
- 17:52Custom Vision API
- 20:27Image Search
- 23:12Sentiment Analysis
- 25:52Language Support
- 26:22Score
- 27:17Menu Explorer
- 29:52Menu Explorer Demo
- 34:12Source Code
- 37:12Deep Dive
- 40:32Demos
- 46:32Code
- 47:57Classification
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