Azure Cognitive Services for Developers, published by Packt
This is the code repository for Azure Cognitive Services for Developers [Video], published by Packt. It contains all the supporting project files necessary to work through the video course from start to finish.
Always wanted to use AI, but it seems too hard? Not anymore! With Azure Cognitive Services, you can make your applications smarter—the easy way. In this course, you will be introduced to Azure Cognitive Services. With this, Microsoft offers you a lot of the power that AI has to offer, but it's made available to you by a set of simple-to-use REST APIs. Because it is so easy to implement, you can start working with it today and make your applications smarter with AI—the easy way. After working through this course, you will know what Cognitive Services are and what they can do for you. But most importantly, after this hands-on course you will be able to get started for yourself, straightaway!
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[*]Learn all about Cognitive Services and what they can do for you. This course handles each category: vision, speech, language, knowledge, and searches
[*]Set up Cognitive Services on your own Azure account
[*]Leverage the power of AI through a set of simple REST APIs
[*]Use computer vision to detect objects and text in images, implement speech-to-text conversion, leverage the power of Bing to retrieve useful search results, and much more
[*]Incorporate everything you've learned into a variety of applications, so you can easily translate it into your own real-life solutions
To fully benefit from the coverage included in this course, you will need:
If you want to build intelligent applications which can permeate your apps, websites, and bots with intelligent algorithms so you can see, hear, speak, understand, and interpret your users' needs through natural methods of communication, then this course is the first step in your journey!
This course has the following software requirements:
Operating system: Mac OS, Microsoft Windows
IDE that works with your language and platform. This can be Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code.
git (Version Control System https://git-scm.com/downloads)
Postman (API Development Environment https://getpostman.com)
Modern browser like Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome
Working internet connection
This course has been tested on the following system configuration:
OS: macOS Mojave (10.14.4)
Graphics: Radeon Pro 560 4GB / Intel HD Graphics 630 1536MB
Processor: 2,9 GHz Intel Core i7
RAM: 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3
IDE: Visual Studio for Mac 2019 / Visual Studio 2019 / Visual Studio Code
Browser: Google Chrome