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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services - Third Edition

By : Leif Larsen
Book Image

Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services - Third Edition

By: Leif Larsen

Overview of this book

Microsoft Cognitive Services is a set of APIs for integrating artificial intelligence in your applications to solve logical business problems. If you’re new to developing applications with AI, Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services will give you a comprehensive introduction to Microsoft’s AI stack and get you up-to-speed in no time. The book introduces you to 24 APIs, including Emotion, Language, Vision, Speech, Knowledge, and Search. Using Visual Studio, you can develop applications with enhanced capabilities for image processing, speech recognition, text processing, and much more. Moving forward, you will work with datasets that enable your applications to process various data in the form of image, video, or text. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to confidently explore Cognitive Services APIs for building intelligent applications that can be deployed for real-world business uses.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services - Third Edition
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Preface
Index

Publishing the model


Once we are done with training, it is time to publish the service. We can do so by clicking Publish in the top menu. Doing so will present us with a basic HTTP request that we can try, as shown in the following screenshot:

In the preceding screenshot, we can see the endpoint to use, the required application ID, the subscription key, and a sample question in the request body. All those parameters are required to get a successful response.

A successful call to the service will provide us with a JSON response as follows:

{ "Answer": "Sample response", "Score": "0" }

If we have an application that uses this, we can decide not to use the answer if the score has fallen below a certain threshold.

Typically, we would be using bots of different kinds to use this service. We can, for example, add this to a Skype bot or Slackbot, or simply integrate it with a chatbot on a customer support site.