Beyond the Usual Suspects: Emerging Cognitive Services

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A survey of lesser-known Microsoft Cognitive Services showing concrete demos and results: Content Moderator for PII detection and profanity filtering (~100 languages, ~$0.84/1,000 transactions); Computer Vision plus Celebrity/Landmark APIs for bounding boxes, labels and face counts; Custom Vision export to Docker to run trained models offline on Raspberry Pi and mobile from dozens to thousands of images; real-time Speech Translation streaming audio-to-text and translating with ~10–15s latency; Speaker Authentication using three enrollment phrases for yes/no verification; Project Prague for local Kinect-based gesture control; and Project Cuzco for extracting and clustering web event signals.

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1. 0:00Emerging cognitive services intro
2. 2:33Core cognitive services
3. 9:05Computer vision vs content moderation
4. 14:07Custom vision training
5. 20:34Speech translation
6. 27:33Speaker recognition auth
7. 31:06Microsoft AI labs experiments
8. 34:24Event tracking anomalies
9. 37:34AI search Q&A
10. 39:17Gesture recognition demos
11. 44:13Quick prototyping
12. 46:02Q&A

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