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Practical Guide to Azure Cognitive Services

By : Chris Seferlis, Christopher Nellis, Andy Roberts
Book Image

Practical Guide to Azure Cognitive Services

By: Chris Seferlis, Christopher Nellis, Andy Roberts

Overview of this book

Azure Cognitive Services and OpenAI are a set of pre-built artificial intelligence (AI) solution APIs that can be leveraged from existing applications, allowing customers to take advantage of Microsoft’s award-winning Vision, Speech, Text, Decision, and GPT-4 AI capabilities. With Practical Guide to Azure Cognitive Services, you’ll work through industry-specific examples of implementations to get a head-start in your production journey. You’ll begin with an overview of the categorization of Azure Cognitive Services and the benefits of embracing AI solutions for practical business applications. After that, you’ll explore the benefits of using Azure Cognitive Services to optimize efficiency and improve predictive capabilities. Then, you’ll learn how to leverage Vision capabilities for quality control, Form Recognizer to streamline supply chain nuances, language understanding to improve customer service, and Cognitive Search for next-generation knowledge-mining solutions. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to implement various Cognitive Services solutions that will help you enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve the customer experience at your organization. You’ll also be well equipped to automate mundane tasks by reaping the full potential of OpenAI.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Part 1: Ocean Smart – an AI Success Story
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Part 2: Deploying Next-Generation Knowledge Mining Solutions with Azure Cognitive Search
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Part 3: Other Cognitive Services That Will Help Your Company Optimize Operations

Exploring the purpose and benefits of knowledge mining solutions

Ocean Smart is constantly acquiring new digital assets and physical paperwork from customers, partners, suppliers, and internal employees. This proliferation of data has developed a tremendous opportunity for organizations to extract critical information from all those data sources. Documents are delivered via email containing details of products being procured, inventory levels, financial documents, sales-related documents, and much more. Customer call centers are capturing audio details of calls in a digital format used to improve training systems and customer experience. Cameras are capturing video of production-floor processes, the movement of products and employees around different areas in buildings, the exteriors of facilities for security tracking, and other relevant details about business operations. They also gather images of finished goods, raw materials, products being delivered to customers, and other opportunities...