After Microsoft Ignite and the announcement of the Microsoft 4.6 release, there are some exciting features announced that we cannot wait to try out. Bot Framework SDK for Microsoft Teams. Built-in support for Teams messaging extensions, proactive messaging and notifications, and more. Bot Framework SDK Skills (preview). You can now …
Whether you are new to AI or already a professional looking to brush up and expand your knowledge now besides Microsoft Learn, there is a platform dedicated to learning about artificial intelligence and that is AI School. AI School has a lot of learning material and self-paced learning paths you …
Keeping up with the speech services you will notice a few nice additions to the speech service. Besides the previous features like Text-To-Speech or Speech-To-Text (tutorials for both can be found here), the speech service has expanded to several new cool features out-of-the-box! Speech-To-Text and Speech translation are now real-time …
Are you looking for an opportunity for your team to hack on a project? Are you a student looking for a coding challenge in between classes? Then look out for a Microsoft OpenHack near you! Microsoft OpenHack is a developer focused event where a wide variety of participants (Open) learn …
Microsoft partners up with Qualcomm to provide the Vision AI Developer Kit! In development there are several scenarion where the need for hardware is as important for the need of software capabilities. For example in retail, to check whether the right products are on the shelfs, or if there is …
Azure Ink Recognizer is an AI service in the Vision Category that recognizes digital ink content, such as handwriting, shapes, and ink document layout. Now you can integrate in your applications hand written experiences that are converted to text and made searchable. Ink recognizer vs OCR The Ink Recognizer API …
Among the newest Cognitive Services published in review is the Personilizer in the Decision category. Personilizer is an Azure AI service that delivers a personalized user experience for your applications. You can use Personalizer to: Personalize what article is highlighted on a news website. Optimize ad placement on a website. …
Alysa Taylor, Corporate Vice President of Business Applications and Industry in Microsoft, announced recently several AI Insights for Office365 and Microsoft Dynamics 365. What is Azure AI? Azure AI is a set of AI services built on Microsoft’s breakthrough innovation from decades of world-class research in vision, speech, language processing, and custom …
Trying to keep up with Azure and Cognitive Services has proven difficult, and among the new services released is a very exciting one, the Form Recognizer! The Form Recognizer extracts key-value pairs, tables and text from documents such as tax statements, reports, invoices, and purchase orders. But that is not …
During the summer a new Azure Cognitive Service was announced, the Immersive Reader in the Language category. Developers can now use this service to embed inclusive capabilities into their apps for enhancing text reading and comprehension for users regardless of age or ability. Features The Immersive Reader can boost reading and comprehension …
