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Intelligence-as-a-Service
mit Azure Cognitive Services
Thomas Gassmann, Manuel Meyer
BASTA 2019
@gassmannT
@manumeyer1
www.thomasgassmann.net/
www.manuelmeyer.net/
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Agenda
▪ Overview
▪ The APIs
▪ Applications
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Overview
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What are Cognitive Services?
▪ Over 40 APIs
▪ Platform independent,
REST-based
▪ Pay-as-you-go
▪ Start for free.
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Roll your own with REST APIs
Simple to add: just a few lines of
code required
Integrate into the language and
platform of your choice
Breadth of offerings helps you find the
right API for your app
Built by experts in their field from
Microsoft Research, Bing, and Azure
Machine Learning
Quality documentation, sample
code, and community support
Easy Flexible Tested
GET A
KEY
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Application Examples
▪ Emotion Detection at a Retail Display
▪ Facial Identification to find missing children
▪ Sentiment Analysis to learn how customers feel
▪ Face detection to calculate male/female ratio at the
TechEvent
▪ Language Understanding to support Bots
▪ Object recognition to help a blind person read a menu.
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Demo
Intelligent Kiosk
https://github.com/Microsoft/Cognitive-Samples-IntelligentKiosk
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The APIs
Vision, Speech, Language, Knowledge, Search
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Vision API
Computer Vision API
Distill actionable
information from
images
Video API
Face API Emotion API
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Vision API Applications
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Demo Vision APIs
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Face API Explorer
1. Get Keys: https://azure.microsoft.com/de-
de/services/cognitive-services/
2. Face API Docs:
https://westus.dev.cognitive.microsoft.com/docs/services/56
3879b61984550e40cbbe8d/operations/563879b61984550f3
0395236
3. Face API Console:
https://westeurope.dev.cognitive.microsoft.com/docs/service
s/563879b61984550e40cbbe8d/operations/563879b6198455
0f30395236/console
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Demo Face API Explorer
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Vision API
Bing Speech API Speaker Recognition API Custom Recognition
Intelligent Service
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Demo Speech APIs
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Language API
Bing Spell
Check API
Language
Understanding
Intelligent
Service
Web Language
Model API
Linguistic
Analysis API
Text Analytics
API
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Demo JFK Files
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/text-analytics/
https://www.ailab.microsoft.com/experiments/jfk-files
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Search API
Academic
Knowledge API Recommendations
API
Knowledge
Exploration
Service
Entity Linking
Service
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The Applications
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Q&A Bot Maker
https://qnamaker.ai
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Seeing AI App
▪ “Seeing AI” from Saqib Shaik
▪ Speak about surroundings
▪ Read text
▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R
2mC-NUAmMk&t=
▪ https://www.microsoft.com/en-
us/seeing-ai/
See4Me by DotNetToscana
https://github.com/DotNetToscana/See4Me
Credits: https://twitter.com/marcominerva/
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Powerpoint Presentation Translator
▪ Live subtitle
▪ Translation into 60 languages
▪ Join via mobile device.
https://translator.microsoft.com/help/presentation-translator/
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Thank you!
Manuel Meyer
www.manuelmeyer.net
@manumeyer1
[email protected]
Thomas Gassmann
www.thomasgassmann.net
@gassmannT
[email protected]
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Links
▪ Intelligence Kiosk
▪ https://github.com/Microsoft/Cognitive-Samples-
IntelligentKiosk
▪ Speech-to-Text, Translation
▪ https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-
speech-sdk
▪ QnA Maker
▪ https://qnamaker.ai
▪ SeeingAI / See4Me
▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2mC-NUAmMk&t=12s
▪ https://github.com/DotNetToscana/See4Me
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Links
▪ Free Credits
▪ https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-
services/en-us/sign-up
▪ Documentation
▪ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-
us/services/cognitive-services/