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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services - Second Edition

By : Leif Larsen
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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services - Second Edition

By: Leif Larsen

Overview of this book

Microsoft has revamped its Project Oxford to launch the all new Cognitive Services platform-a set of 30 APIs to add speech, vision, language, and knowledge capabilities to apps. This book will introduce you to 24 of the APIs released as part of Cognitive Services platform and show you how to leverage their capabilities. More importantly, you'll see how the power of these APIs can be combined to build real-world apps that have cognitive capabilities. The book is split into three sections: computer vision, speech recognition and language processing, and knowledge and search. You will be taken through the vision APIs at first as this is very visual, and not too complex. The next part revolves around speech and language, which are somewhat connected. The last part is about adding real-world intelligence to apps by connecting them to Knowledge and Search APIs. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to understand what Microsoft Cognitive Service can offer and how to use the different APIs.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Automatically moderating user content


Using the Content Moderator API, we can add monitoring to user-generated content. The API is created to assist with flags and to assess and filter offensive and unwanted content.

The content to moderate

We will quickly go through the key features of the moderation APIs in this section.

Note

A reference to the documentation for all APIs can be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/nb-no/azure/cognitive-services/content-moderator/api-reference.

Image moderation

The Image Moderation API allows you to moderate images for adult and racy content. It can also extract textual content and detect faces in images.

When using the API to evaluate adult and racy content, the API will take an image as input. Based on the image, it will return a Boolean value, indicating if the image is either adult or racy. It will also contain a corresponding confidence score between 0 and 1. The Boolean value is set based on a set of default thresholds.

If the image contains any text, the...