Understanding Azure's Cognitive Services
Throughout this book, we've been exploring how to use AI and integrate it with Power BI. The trade-off between building your own models from scratch and using prebuilt models is often mentioned. In later chapters, we'll find different ways to get more control over the data used to train the model and the way the model is trained. In this chapter, we'll introduce another approach to use out-of-the-box AI features: with Azure Cognitive Services.
Azure Cognitive Services is a suite of services where the main intention is to reduce the time and expertise needed to apply AI within your organization. Most of the prebuilt models listed under Cognitive Services are AI solutions to problems many organizations face.
For example, you may want to make your documents more accessible to people who are visually impaired and use programs that read the text out loud to them. If you include any images in your documents, the program...
