Azure Cognitive Services has been an AI solution that close to many developers's heart. They implement it in their applications easily. There are some new Microsoft Cognitive Services that are newly being introduced.

1. Azure Cognitive Services for
Developers
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3. Microsoft Build 2019 marks an important
milestone for the evolution of Azure
Cognitive Services with the introduction of
new services and capabilities for developers.

4. Before update…..

5. After update…..
Decision Vision Speech Search Language
Content Moderator
Anomaly Detector
Computer Vision
Face
Video Indexer
Custom Vision
Speech Services Bing Web Search
Bing Visual Search
Bing Custom Search
Bing Entity Search
Bing Video Search
Bing News Search
Bing Image Search
Bing Autosuggest
Text Analytics
Translator Text
Bing Spell Check
QnA Maker
Content Moderator
Language
Understanding
Preview
Personalizer
Preview
Form Recognizer
Ink Recognizer
Updated
Speaker Recognition
Preview
Bing Local Business
Search

6. Preview
• Cognitive service APIs:
• Personalizer – creates personalized user experiences
• Conversation transcription – transcribes in-person meetings in real-time
• Form Recognizer – automates data-entry
• Ink Recognizer – unlocks the potential of digital inked content

7. General Available (GA)
• Neural Text-to-Speech
• Computer Vision Read
• Text Analytics Named Entity Recognition

8. Azure empowers developers to make
reinforcement learning real for businesses
with the launch of Personalizer.

9. Decision
Introducing Personalizer, reinforcement learning for the enterprise

10. Personalizer
• Provide information about your users and content and receive the
top action to show your users.
• No need to clean and label data before using Personalizer.
• Provide feedback to Personalizer when it is convenient to you.
• View real-time analytics.
• Use Personalizer as part of a larger data science effort to validate
existing experiments.

12. How does Personalizer work?

13. Where can I use Personalizer?
• Personalize what article is highlighted on a news website.
• Display a personalized "recommended item" on a shopping
website.
• Suggest user interface elements such as filters to apply to a specific
photo.

14. For Developers
• Send information (features) about your users and the content
(actions) to personalize. Personalizer responds with the top action.
• Send feedback to Personalizer about how well the ranking worked
as a number typically between 0 and 1.

15. Demo
Personalizer

16. Speech
In-person meetings just got better with conversation transcription

17. Conversation Transcription
• Updated Speech-to-text service
• Improves meeting efficiency by transcribing conversations in real-
time
• Integrates with a variety of meeting conference solutions including
Microsoft Teams and other third-party meeting software.
• SDK is available.

19. Conversation Transcription
• Updated Speech-to-text service
• Improves meeting efficiency by transcribing conversations in real-
time
• Help safeguard data with industry-leading security and compliance
certifications.
• Integrates with a variety of meeting conference solutions including
Microsoft Teams and other third-party meeting software.
• SDK is available.

20. Demo
Conversation Transcription

21. Vision
Unlocking the value of your content – from forms to digital inked
notes

22. Two new Vision APIs
• Form Recognizer
• Ink Recognizer

23. Form Recognizer
• Extract text and data from business’s forms and documents.
• Easily extract text and structure, with simple REST API
• Container support

24. Demo
Form Recognizer

25. Ink Recognizer
• Recognize digital handwriting, common shapes, and the layout of
inked documents.
• Create experiences that combine the benefits of physical pen and
paper with the best of the digital

28. Bringing AI to the Edge
Unlocking the value of your content – from forms to digital inked
notes

29. Container Support For Businesses AI Models
At The Edge
• Speech Services (Speech to Text & Text to Speech)
• Anomaly Detector
• Form Recognizer

30. General Available (GA)

31. More Improvements
Enhanced Cognitive Services for Developers

32. More Enhanced Cognitive Services
• Neural Text-to-Speech
• Supports 5 voices and 9 regions
• More voices available
• Changing voice & emotion by using Speech Synthesis Markup Language
<voice name='en-US-JessaNeural’>
<mstts:express-as type="cheerful">
• Computer Vision
• Multi-page documents
• Improve capabilities for extracting text from the most common file types.
• Now understands 10K+ concepts, scenes, and objects.
• Expanded the set of recognized celebrities from 200K to 1M

33. More Enhanced Cognitive Services
• Text Analytics
• Named entity recognition - takes free-form text and identifies the
occurrences of entities with 19 language supported.
• QnA Maker
• Supports multi-turn dialogs.
• Enhancing its core capability of extracting dialog from PDFs or websites.

34. Demo – Facial Search with Face Verification
A sample app empowered by Azure Cognitive Services

35. References
• Personalizer
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/personalizer/
• https://personalizationdemo.azurewebsites.net/
• Speech-To-Text
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/speech-to-text/
• Form Recogizer
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/form-recognizer/
• Ink Recognizer
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/ink-recognizer/
• Speech
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/speech-to-text/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/speech-synthesis-
markup

36. Azure Cognitive Services for
Developers
Marvin Heng, Microsoft MVP
www.techconnect.io | @hmheng