With Azure Cognitive Services, you can create modern and intelligent applications. It offers various AI and machine learning APIs and SDKs, which can be used in applications to make them more intelligent, such as speech and facial recognition, speech and language understanding, and more.
Cognitive Services is part of the AI offering of Azure. It offers APIs that can be consumed as-is and APIs that need training and can be used to create your own custom AI solutions.
The APIs are split up into multiple categories, such as vision, speech, language, knowledge, and search APIs. These categories with the available APIs are covered in more detail in the upcoming sections.
Cognitive Services offers a set of APIs and SDKs that are still in the experimental stage as well. These services are added to the labs category. By the time of writing this book, the Labs...