Brief overview of Azure Cognitive services (CY 2019 Q3), what you can leverage in building and enhancing your daily workflows.
Introduction with some of Intelligent Services in Microsoft Teams and Powerpoint.
4. ”
“By 2020, more than 40% of data science tasks will be
automated, resulting in increased productivity and
broader usage by a new generation of business users
called Citizen Data Scientists.
Gartner, 2018
https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2017-01-16-gartner-says-more-than-40-percent-
of-data-science-tasks-will-be-automated-by-2020
13. ANOMALY DETECTOR PREVIEW
• Monitor business health in real-time
• Conduct IoT-remote monitoring
• Leverage interactive data analytics
14. PERSONALIZER PREVIEW
• Deliver rich personalized experiences in your
apps
• Deploy anywhere, from the cloud to the edge
• Understand and easily manage the
reinforcement learning loop
22. TRANSLATOR TEXT API
• Translate into more than 60 languages
• Transliterate
• Look up words with the bilingual dictionary
• Add online and offline translation support into your Android app [PREVIEW]
• Build customized translation systems
23. ”
“Notably, during the Double 11 Shopping Carnival (Singles
Day), there will be tens of thousands of translation
requests every minute, making a daily total word count
of over 200 billion words
Alibaba Cloud on Scale of Machine Translation in E-Commerce, 2018
https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/translating-100-billion-words-every-day-for-e-commerce-with-
alibaba-machine-translation_594114
33. => FEEDBACK LOOPS
HACK @ WORK
EXPERIMENT!
Off shelf AI .. Happens now
Follow best practices and «gotchas»
EXPERIMENT!
Language / Vision / Speech / Decision
(Why) Acessability
(What) Inteligent Services in Microsoft Office
(How) Azure Cognitive Services
Learn more | Container Support
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Detect potential offensive and unwanted images
Filter possible profanity and undesirable text
Moderate adult and racy content in videos
Use built-in review tool for best results
Learn more
Converstion Transcriptions
User signiture Voice profiles for speaker recogniton (with multichanel audio)
Conversation Transcription is currently available in "en-US" and "zh-CN" in the following regions: centralus and eastasia.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/language-support
Speaker recognition – PREVIEW
Speaker verification
Analyse images
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/computer-vision/
Now generally available: Read both printed and handwritten text in images
Recognize brands, celebrities and landmarks
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/custom-vision-service/
Custom Vision functionality can be divided into two features.
Image classification applies one or more labels to an image.
Object detection is similar, but it also returns the coordinates in the image where the applied label(s) can be found.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/media-services/video-indexer/
Mashup of differenet tech stacks, but very comprehensive platform for building things further