Azure Cognitive Services for Developers

Azure Cognitive Services for Developers

by Gerald Versluis
Released April 2019
Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
ISBN: 9781838552565

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Video description

Make your applications smarter, the easy way with Azure Cognitive Services

About This Video

  • Learn about Azure Cognitive Services: what they are, how they work, and what they can do for you.
  • Set up Cognitive Services and easily integrate them into a range of different applications.
  • Stay ahead of your competition and surprise your end-users by incorporating AI in your solutions.

In Detail

Always wanted to use AI, but it seems too hard? Not anymore! With Azure Cognitive Services, you can make your applications smarter—the easy way.

In this course, you will be introduced to Azure Cognitive Services. With this, Microsoft offers you a lot of the power that AI has to offer, but it's made available to you by a set of simple-to-use REST APIs. Because it is so easy to implement, you can start working with it today and make your applications smarter with AI—the easy way.

After working through this course, you will know what Cognitive Services are and what they can do for you. But most importantly, after this hands-on course you will be able to get started for yourself, straightaway!

Downloading the example code for this course: You can download the example code files for this course on GitHub at the following link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Azure-Cognitive-Services-for-Developers. If you require support please email: customercare@packt.com

Table of contents

  1. Chapter 1 : Introducing Azure Cognitive Services
    1. The Course Overview 00:04:12
    2. Prerequisites 00:03:06
    3. What Are the Azure Cognitive Services? 00:04:41
    4. Vision 00:06:09
    5. Speech 00:03:44
    6. Language 00:05:08
    7. Knowledge 00:03:13
    8. Search 00:04:56
  2. Chapter 2 : Setting Up Cognitive Services in the Azure Portal
    1. Quick Overview of the Azure Portal 00:06:29
    2. Setting Up and Exploring the Computer Vision Service 00:07:52
    3. Executing a Test Call to the Computer Vision API 00:09:15
  3. Chapter 3 : A Closer Look at Vision
    1. Introduction to Vision 00:05:06
    2. Outlining the Mobile Application 00:11:00
    3. Implementing Computer Vision 00:09:28
    4. Inspecting the Results 00:05:19
    5. Exploring the Sample Web Application 00:05:59
    6. Implementing the Face API 00:07:57
    7. Running the Complete Web Application 00:04:47
  4. Chapter 4 : Working with Speech
    1. Introduction to Speech 00:04:33
    2. Outlining the Mobile Application 00:07:39
    3. Implementing Speech-to-Text 00:08:42
    4. Inspecting the Results 00:06:20
    5. Exploring the Sample Console Application 00:08:57
    6. Implementing the Text-to-Speech API 00:06:17
    7. Running the Application and Hearing the Results 00:05:11
  5. Chapter 5 : Understanding Language
    1. Introduction to Language 00:06:24
    2. Outlining the Web Application 00:06:34
    3. Implementing Sentiment Analysis 00:09:13
    4. Inspecting the Results 00:03:58
    5. Exploring the Web Application 00:04:06
    6. Implementing the Translation API 00:04:51
    7. Translating our Texts 00:04:22
  6. Chapter 6 : Exploring Search
    1. Introduction to Search 00:06:31
    2. Outlining the Mobile Application 00:03:03
    3. Implementing Image Search 00:04:59
    4. Inspecting the Results 00:05:03
    5. Exploring the Web Application 00:03:52
    6. Implementing the Local Companies Search 00:05:28
    7. Finding Local Businesses 00:06:44
  7. Chapter 7 : Summary and How to Proceed from Here
    1. What We Have Learned? 00:06:39
    2. Next Steps 00:02:57
    3. More (Fun) Examples 00:04:36

Product information

  • Title: Azure Cognitive Services for Developers
  • Author(s): Gerald Versluis
  • Release date: April 2019
  • Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781838552565