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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

Summary


Throughout this chapter, we covered the Emotion API and the Video API. We started by making the smart-house application see what kind of mood you are in. Following this, we dived deep into the Video API, where you learned how to detect and track faces, detect motion, stabilize videos, and generate intelligent video thumbnails. Next, we moved back to the Emotion API, where you learned how to do emotion analysis on videos. Finally, we closed the chapter by taking a quick look at the Video Indexer and how it can be used to gain insights from videos.

In the next chapter, we will move away from the Vision APIs and into the first Language API. You will learn how to understand intent in sentences, using the power of LUIS.