How Normal Developers Can Use AI And ML In Their Applications

Introduction

Cognitive Services bring AI within reach of every developer. They don’t require any machine-learning expertise. All it takes is an API call to embed the ability to see, hear, speak, search, understand and accelerate decision-making in our apps.

Azure Cognitive Services enable developers to easily add cognitive features into their applications. The goal of Azure Cognitive Services is to help developers create applications that can see, hear, speak, understand, and even begin to reason.

The catalog of services within Azure Cognitive Services can be branched into five main pillars,

Vision
Speech
Language
Web Search
Decision

Vision APIs

Service Name	Service Description
Custom Vision	The Computer Vision service provides you with access to advanced algorithms for processing images and returning information.
Custom Vision Service	The Custom Vision Service allows you to build custom image classifiers.
Face	The Face service provides access to advanced face algorithms, enabling face attribute detection and recognition.
Form Recognizer (Preview)	Form Recognizer identifies and extracts key-value pairs and table data from form documents; then outputs structured data including the relationships in the original file.
Ink Recognizer (Preview)	Ink Recognizer allows you to recognize and analyze digital ink stroke data, shapes, and handwritten content, and output a document structure with all recognized entities.
Video Indexer	Video Indexer enables you to extract insights from your video.

Speech APIs

Service Name	Service Description
Speech service	Speech service adds speech-enabled features to applications.
Speaker Recognition API (Preview)	The Speaker Recognition API provides algorithms for speaker identification and verification.
Bing Speech (Retiring)	The Bing Speech API provides you with an easy way to create speech-enabled features in your applications.
Translator Speech (Retiring)	Translator Speech is a machine translation service.

Language APIs

Service Name	Service Description
Language Understanding LUIS	Language Understanding service (LUIS) allows your application to understand what a person wants in their own words.
QnA Maker	QnA Maker allows you to build a question and answer service from your semi-structured content.
Text Analytics	Text Analytics provides natural language processing over raw text for sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction and language detection.
Translator Text	Translator text provides for machine-based text translation in near real-time.

Search APIs

Service Name	Service Description
Bing News Search	Bing News Search returns a list of news articles determined to be relevant to the user's query.
Bing Video Search	Bing Video Search returns a list of videos determined to be relevant to the user's query.
Bing Web Search	Bing Web Search returns a list of search results determined to be relevant to the user's query.
Bing Autosuggest	Bing Autosuggest allows you to send a partial search query term to Bing and get back a list of suggested queries.
Bing Custom Search	Bing Custom Search allows you to create tailored search experiences for topics that you care about.
Bing Entity Search	Bing Entity Search returns information about entities that Bing determines are relevant to a user's query. Bing Image Search returns a display of images determined to be relevant to the user's query.
Bing Visual Search	Bing Visual Search provides returns insights about an image such as visually similar images, shopping sources for products found in the image, and related searches.
Bing Local Business Search	Bing Local Business Search API enables your applications to find contact and location information about local businesses based on search queries.
Bing Spell Check	Bing Spell Check allows you to perform contextual grammar and spell checking.

Decision APIs

Service Name	Service Description
Anomaly Detector (Preview)	Anomaly Detector allows you to monitor and detect abnormalities in your time series data.
Content Moderator	Content Moderator provides monitoring for possible offensive, undesirable, and risky content.
Personalizer	Personalizer allows you to choose the best experience to show to your users, learning from their real-time behavior.