1. Artificial intelligence for everyone
Veronika Kolesnikova
@breakpointv16

2. Veronika Kolesnikova BS in Applied Computer Science and Economics
Developer, Rightpoint Boston
BS in Applied Computer Science and Economics
MS in Information Technology
3.5 years QA Experience
6+ years development experience
C#, .NET, SQL, Xamarin, .NET-based CMSes like EPiServer, Sitecore
PHP, MySQL, Drupal, RoR
Hobbies: dancing, travelling, aerial yoga

3. Agenda Artificial intelligence and machine learning
Basics of Microsoft Cognitive Services
Groups and individual services
Visual Studio Tools for AI
Artificial intelligence in Office 365
Demo

4. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

5. What are Microsoft Cognitive services?
Get Key
Build
EASY
FLEXIBLE
TESTED
Simple to add: just a few lines of code
Integrate into the language and platform of your choice
Built by experts in their field from Microsoft Research, Bing and Azure Machine Learning
Get access with REST APIs
Breadth of offerings helps you find the right API for your app
Quality documentation, sample code, and community support

6. Groups of cognitive services

7. groups of Cognitive Services
Vision
Computer Vision API
Face API
Emotion merged into Face!
Computer Vision - This feature returns information about visual content found in an image.
Face API - Check the likelihood that two faces belong to the same person.
Content Moderator - Machine-assisted moderation of text and images, augmented with human review tools.
Custom model export (CoreML for iOS + Android upcoming!)
Content Moderator
Custom Vision Service
Video Indexer

8. groups of Cognitive Services
Speech
Speech to Text
Text to Speech
Computer Vision - This feature returns information about visual content found in an image.
Face API - Check the likelihood that two faces belong to the same person.
Content Moderator - Machine-assisted moderation of text and images, augmented with human review tools.
Translator Speech API - The API enables developers to add end-to-end, real-time, speech translations to their applications or services.
Bing Speech API - Convert spoken audio to text.
Speaker Recognition API
Speech Translation

9. groups of Cognitive Services
Language
Language Understanding Intelligent Service
Bing Spell Check API
Translator Text API
Bots. Pre-built scenarios for LUIS
Text Analytics API
Content Moderator

10. groups of Cognitive Services
Knowledge
QnA Maker API
Knowledge – find patterns in data
QnA maker and Custom Decision service – preview, others – moved to experimental

11. groups of Cognitive Services
Search
Bing Autosuggest API
Bing Visual Search
Bing Image Search API
Bing News Search API
Bing local business search
Bing Video Search API
Bing Web Search API
Bing Custom Search
Bing Entity Search API

12. groups of Cognitive Services
Anomaly Detection
Anomaly Detector

13. groups of Cognitive Services
Labs
Project URL Preview
Project Gesture
Project Local Insights
12 for now + 5 AI labs ailab.microsoft.com
Project Event Tracking
Project Academic Knowledge

14. All APIs are available in Azure
Free tier includes transactions per month
No need to have Azure subscriptions to try Cognitive Services
Custom Vision Service has mobile model export

15. Microsoft AI Platform

16. Visual Studio Tools for Artificial intelligence
Supported frameworks: Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK), Google TensorFlow, Theano, Keras, Caffe2 and more
Deploy your model to Azure and integrate it to your application with REST API
Gallery of sample experiments
Azure Machine Learning Integration
Submit jobs to different compute targets like Spark clusters, Azure GPU virtual machines and more
If you have a PhD in Machine learning and want to go dipper, try VS tools for AI.

17. Cognitive Services in Microsoft Office products

18. Cognitive Services in Microsoft Office products
Word – dictation, acronyms (still in preview), read aloud, translate, resume assistant
Outlook – read aloud, “time to go”, meeting scheduler
Power Point – design ideas, dictation, translator
Cortana can connect all Office apps
Hololens integration
1:28:20-1:40

19. Seeing AI

20. Demo

21. Useful links
Microsoft Cognitive Services Documentation: services/
Performing OCR: microsoft-cognitive-services/
iOS and Android development courses and articles
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