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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services - Third Edition

By : Leif Larsen
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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

Acknowledgments

Writing a book requires a lot of work from a team of people. I would like to give a huge thanks to the team at Packt Publishing, who have helped make this book a reality. Specifically, I would like to thank Rohit Kumar Singh and Pavan Ramchandani, for excellent guidance and feedback for each chapter, and Denim Pinto and Chaitanya Nair, for proposing the book and guiding me through the start. I also need to direct a thanks to Abhishek Kumar for providing good technical feedback.

Also, I would like to say thanks to my friends and colleagues who have been supportive and patient when I have not been able to give them as much time as they deserve.

Thanks to my mom and my dad for always supporting me.

Thanks to my sister, Susanne, and my friend, Steffen, for providing me with ideas from the start, and images where needed.

I need to thank John Sonmez for his great work, without which, I probably would not have got the chance to write this book.

Finally, I want to thank my girlfriend, Christin, for her amazing support and patience through the writing process.

About the reviewer

Abhishek Kumar is a Microsoft Azure MVP and has worked with multiple clients worldwide on modern integration strategies and solutions. He started his career in India with Tata Consultancy Services, before taking up multiple roles as consultant at Cognizant Technology Services and Robert Bosch GmbH.

He has published several articles on modern integration strategy over the Web and Microsoft TechNet wiki. His areas of interest include technologies such as Logic Apps, API Apps, Azure Functions, Cognitive Services, PowerBI, and Microsoft BizTalk Server.

His Twitter username is @Abhishekcskumar.

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