Everything I have about cognitive services
08 Mar 2021
Durable Functions Azure Functions Cognitive Search Logic Apps Cognitive Services Serverless
There are many scenarios where and AI-based enrichment pipline is applicable; anywhere when you need to enrich data with insight from AI services. Azure offers three main ways to do this, Logic Apps, Cognitive Search and Durable Functions. This articles compares and contrasts these platforms to help you decide which one suits your requirements
03 Jan 2020
Cognitive Services Localisation Logic Apps Azure Functions Serverless Bots QnAMaker
QnAMaker is great unless you need to support multiple languages where there is no built-in solution. In this article, I'll explain how I've implemented localized QnAMaker from a single model with Logic Apps, the Translator Text API and an Azure Function.
09 Sep 2019
Cognitive Services Document Recognition OCR
The new Cognitive Services Forms Recognizer API has a pre-built receipt recognition model. I investigated it for a customer and this is what I found out in terms of how it works, what works well, what is not so good.
30 Aug 2018
The way you access Luis has changed in Bot Framework V4. Here are some tips based on what I learnt with the preview version in July 2018
05 Feb 2018
Events Cognitive Services Bots
A preview of the AI Sercvices track at Future Decoded 2017.
16 Oct 2017
Events Cognitive Services Bots
I'm very proud to announce that for the third consecutive year, Microsoft are sponsoring Hackference 2017. We'll be helping developers build apps with Microsoft Cognitive Services and Bot Framework
16 Oct 2017
Events Cognitive Services Bots Machine Learning
A preview of the AI Services track at Future Decoded 2017
06 Mar 2017
Cognitive Services Recommendations ASP.net Bots
Anyone that has ever shopped on Amazon or listened to music on Spotify will be familiar with the concept of recommendations where the user is offered recommendations of items based on browsing history, purchase history and other indicators of how the user has interacted with a product, artist etc
06 Oct 2016
Events Cognitive Services Bots Machine Learning
A preview of the Artificial Intelligence track at Future Decoded 2016
06 Jun 2016
Cognitive Services Computer Vision
Microsoft Cognitive Services is a set of APIs that enable developers of any platform or language to add machine learning smarts to their applications. In this article, well explore the many features of the Vision family of APIs
07 May 2016
Cognitive Services Computer Vision
I continue to explore Microsoft Cognitive Services, specifically the Computer Vision API in .net
07 May 2016
Cognitive Services Emotion API
One of the more interesting Cognitive APIs is the Emotion API which can analyse the emotions shown on a photo. I was very excited about this API when I first heard about it. I know this because I uploaded a selfie to it and it told me I was excited. So I thought I'd set to work on a little sample which shows how to use the Emotion API in my two favourite languages C# and JavaScript
06 May 2016
Cognitive Services Computer Vision Azure Functions
Learn how to use the smart image re-sizing feature of the Cognitive Services Computer Vision API inside an Azure Function
03 May 2016
Cognitive Services Computer Vision
Thumbnail generation is definitely not a new idea, but the clever bit is that not only can the API resize an image to your required height and width but it has a flag called 'Smart Crop' which identifies the 'region of interest' in the image and automatically centers the crop around that so you don't end up accidentally cutting people faces off!
22 Mar 2016
Cognitive Services Emotion API ASP.net
This week was the annual International Day of Happiness; so i built a website ot see hwo happy you are based on your face using the Cognitive Services Emotion API
01 Mar 2016
Cognitive Services Machine Learning
Machine Learning is one of those tech areas which has always seemed just slightly out of reach for me. In this article, I'll demystify machine learning and explain how acessible it is for regular developers
