Microsoft Cognitive Services – Artificial Intelligence based vision, speech and language API
Build your own solutions with Microsoft Cognitive Services – Previously known as Project Oxford with any language or development platform see https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services and a full list of all the available APIs at https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/apis
Here is a quick overview of some of the available APIs
Vision Apis
The Computer Vision APIs are a collection of state-of-the-art image processing algorithms designed to return information based on the visual content, and to generate your ideal thumbnail. With this API, you can choose which visual features you want to extract that best suit your needs.
Computer Vision APIs
Face APIs
Emotion APIs
Video APIs
Speech
Speech APIs provide state-of-the-art algorithms to process spoken language. With these APIs, developers can easily include the ability to add speech driven actions to their applications. In certain cases, the APIs also allow for real-time interaction with the user as well.
Speech APIs
Speaker Recognition APIs
Custom Recognition Intelligent Service (CRIS)
Language APIs
Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)
Cognitive Services APIs
See the full list of all the APIs https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/apis
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Cognitive Services APIs
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