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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

Creating language-understanding models


Often, we wish that our computer could understand what we want. As we go on with our day-to-day business, we would like to be able to talk to the computer, or mobile phone, using regular sentences. With no help at all, this is hard to do.

Utilizing the power of LUIS, we can now solve this problem. By creating language-understanding models, we allow applications to understand what users want. We can also recognize key data. This is, typically, data you want to be a part of a query or command. If you are asking for the latest news, key data may be the topic you are asking to get the news for.

Registering an account and getting a license key

To get started with LUIS, you should head over to https://www.luis.ai. This is where we will set up our application. Click on the Sign in or create an account button to get started.

Once inside, we want to make sure we have a subscription key. We can register for one using Microsoft Azure. Open a new tab in the browser...