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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

By : Leif Larsen
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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

By: Leif Larsen

Overview of this book

Take your app development to the next level with Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services. Using Leif's knowledge of each of the powerful APIs, you'll learn how to create smarter apps with more human-like capabilities. ? Discover what each API has to offer and learn how to add it to your app ? Study each AI using theory and practical examples ? Learn current API best practices

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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services
Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Customer Feedback
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with Microsoft Cognitive Services
Getting Started with Microsoft Cognitive Services
Cognitive Services in action for fun and life changing purposes
Setting up boilerplate code
Detecting faces with the Face API
Overview of what we are dealing with
Getting feedback on detected faces
Summary
2
Analyzing Images to Recognize a Face
Analyzing Images to Recognize a Face
Learning what an image is about using Computer Vision API
Diving deep into the Face API
Adding identification to our Smart-House application
Summary
3
Analyzing Videos
Analyzing Videos
Knowing your mood using the Emotion API
Diving into the Video API
Analyzing emotions in videos
Summary
4
Letting Applications Understand Commands
Letting Applications Understand Commands
Creating language-understanding models
Training a model
Executing operations based on commands
Summary
5
Speak with Your Application
Speak with Your Application
Converting text to audio and vice versa
Knowing who is speaking
Verifying a person through speech
Customizing speech recognition
Summary
6
Understanding Text
Understanding Text
Setting up a common core
Correcting spelling errors
Natural Language Processing using the Web Language Model
Extracting information through textual analysis
Exploring text using linguistic analysis
Summary
7
Extending Knowledge Based on Context
Extending Knowledge Based on Context
Linking entities based on context
Providing personalized recommendations
Summary
8
Querying Structured Data in a Natural Way
Querying Structured Data in a Natural Way
Tapping into academic content using the Academic API
Creating the backend using the Knowledge Exploration Service
Answering FAQs using QnA Maker
Summary
9
Adding Specialized Searches
Adding Specialized Searches
Searching the Web from the Smart-House application
Getting the news
Searching for images and videos
Helping the user with auto suggestions
Search commonalities
Summary
10
Connecting the Pieces
Connecting the Pieces
Connecting the pieces
Real-life applications using Microsoft Cognitive Services
Where to go from here
Summary
11
LUIS Entities and Intents
LUIS Entities and Intents
LUIS pre-built intents
LUIS pre-built entities
12
Additional Information on Linguistic Analysis
Additional Information on Linguistic Analysis
Part-of-Speech Tags
Phrase types
13
License Information
License Information
Video Frame Analyzer
OpenCvSharp3
Newtonsoft.Json
NAudio

LUIS pre-built intents

Note

A complete and updated list of pre-built intents can be found at https://www.luis.ai/help#PreBuiltApp.

The following table contains all intents that are available with the Cortana pre-built application, along with sample utterances:

Intent

Example utterance

builtin.intent.alarm.alarm_other

Update my 7:30 alarm to be 8:00.

builtin.intent.alarm.delete_alarm

Delete my alarm wake up.

builtin.intent.alarm.find_alarm

Is my wake-up alarm on?

builtin.intent.alarm.set_alarm

Turn on my wake-up alarm.

builtin.intent.alarm.snooze

Snooze alarm for 5 minutes.

builtin.intent.alarm.time_remaining

How much longer do I have until my wake-up time?

builtin.intent.alarm.turn_off_alarm

Turn off my 7 a.m. alarm.

builtin.intent.calendar.change_calendar_entry

Move my meeting from today to tomorrow.

builtin.intent.calendar.check_availability

Is Brian free on Saturday?

builtin.intent.calendar.connect_to_meeting

Join the meeting online.

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