By the end of year 2019, we’ve seen almost a decade of disruptions in almost every sector of industry, from blockchain based agriculture to liquid biopsy in healthcare, from smart banking to personalized products; all have got one thing in common and that is: determination to make people’s lives easier and enable them to achieve more.
You can’t neglect the impact of AI across the globe. Even if some friends think / consider it’s overrated, overhyped or a mere buzzword, you still expect from your bank to detect the anomaly when the transactions are not made by you or perform real-time (offline) translation if you’re in the non-English speaking countries. Needs like these or similar are the reason for AI to stay and grow better.
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As the software development industry is growing exponentially and the demand for technology stack is becoming substantial every year; it is evident that if you (as a developer) do not keep up to the trends, you may end up losing the importance of your role. An ample amount of time is always required to learn any component of your stack and Artificial Intelligence has always been one of them.
Fortunately! Just to make our lives easier; with the advent of cloud native applications or services, most of the AI services are now available at the endpoint of your software; be it a mobile or web app, bot or IoT device and so on.
Azure Cognitive Services are the similar kind of services, API & SDKs that lets you embed artificial intelligence to your applications without any in-depth knowledge of AI. These services let you add machine learning capabilities in your applications to solve countless problems ranging from social, business, environmental and beyond. Because of these services, you can analyze the image, listen, speak with the custom voice, understand the context of your sentence and empower your applications by integrating decision making into your software. All without any sort of special machine learning / data sciences knowledge.
Azure Cognitive Services has SDKs for many frameworks & runtimes but with REST API, the possibilities grow endless as you can connect your app developed in any language with them.
I will try my best (no promises here!) to accomodate different language / runtime to brief you about each Cognitive Service that can be used by developer of any stack!
Broadly, these services are divided into 5 distinguished categories;
| Decision | Language | Speech | Vision | Web Search |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anomaly Detector Preview | Immersive Reader Preview | Speech to Text | Computer Vision | Bing Autosuggest |
| Content moderator | Language Understanding | Text to Speech | Custom Vision | Bing Custom Search |
| Personalizer | QnA Maker | Speech Translation | Face | Bing Entity Search |
| Text Analytics | Speech Recognition | Form Recogniser Preview | Bing Image Search | |
| Translator Text | Speaker Recognition Preview | Ink Recogniser Preview | Bing News Search | |
| Video Indexer | Bing Spell Check | |||
| Bing Video Search | ||||
| Bing Web Search |
In today’s post, we will talking about the latest Immersive Reader Preview and see how effectively it’s bringing a positive change to the people with all the abilities.
Immersive Reader Preview
The Immersive Reader lets you (as a developer) embed text reading and comprehension capabilities into your apps. It empowers readers of all abilities with features such as translating languages, reading aloud, grammar and highlighting options along with other design elements.
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