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Creating a Cognitive API account

In addition to the sentiment analysis, the Text Analytics API also provides capabilities of topic detection, key phrase detection, and language detection. In this chapter, we will focus on the use of sentiment analysis specifically. All of the Text Analytics APIs are available online for free testing at https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/text-analytics-api.

Beyond a simple one-time test, we need to create an Azure Cognitive Service API account to leverage the APIs. When creating an account, we will need to specify the type of the API we're leveraging, since many diverse APIs are available. Let's explore the following steps to create our Cognitive API account:

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