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Practical Guide to Azure Cognitive Services
Practical Guide to Azure Cognitive Services

Practical Guide to Azure Cognitive Services: Leverage the power of Azure OpenAI to optimize operations, reduce costs, and deliver cutting-edge AI solutions

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Practical Guide to Azure Cognitive Services

How Azure AI Changed Ocean Smart

This book is intended to teach you how to apply Azure Cognitive Services to everyday business opportunities where some efficiency can be gained, some cost can be saved, or some unknown or misunderstood insight can be unveiled. We will start with a brief introduction of why and how Azure Cognitive Services is helping with those processes.

Next, we will give an overview of our fictitious seafood company, Ocean Smart. The operational challenges that are outlined are based on the authors' experience working in the seafood industry for over 15 years in various capacities as consultants, technicians, developers, process improvers, and an executive. The examples provided, however, could be applied to many organizations, whether they are manufacturing companies or not. Of course, some of the examples are specific to manufacturing but can be applied to many different examples across various industries and verticals.

From there, we will take the examples provided and develop a plan for evaluating and building a case to present what the return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO) will be to implement these types of solutions. This will be done with guidance on ideating ways to create insight around the value of the implementations—in other words, what efficiency can be gained, how much cost can be saved, or how many insights can be brought forward in tangible examples. These examples can then be presented to the key stakeholders and project sponsors in your organization to get their approval to move ahead with the project.

These examples, of course, will be applied differently at every organization as there are variable values related to building each example that will be different depending on the industry, country, or even region of the country in which you reside.

Wrapping up the chapter, we will look at some architectural guidelines based on successfully implemented use cases that align with the examples we present later in the book to get a taste of which other services will be deployed as part of the overall solution and technologies that will accompany the Cognitive Services you will be configuring in each of the use cases.

We'll go through the following sections:

  • Choosing Azure Cognitive Services
  • The Ocean Smart story
  • Building your case: calculating ROI and TCO
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  • Minimize costs and maximize operations by automating mundane activities using AI tools
  • Ideate solutions using real-world examples for manufacturing process improvement with AI
  • Master TCO and ROI analysis for implementing AI solutions, automating operations, and ideating innovative manufacturing solutions with real-world examples

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Azure Cognitive Services and OpenAI are a set of pre-built artificial intelligence (AI) solution APIs that can be leveraged from existing applications, allowing customers to take advantage of Microsoft’s award-winning Vision, Speech, Text, Decision, and GPT-4 AI capabilities. With Practical Guide to Azure Cognitive Services, you’ll work through industry-specific examples of implementations to get a head-start in your production journey. You’ll begin with an overview of the categorization of Azure Cognitive Services and the benefits of embracing AI solutions for practical business applications. After that, you’ll explore the benefits of using Azure Cognitive Services to optimize efficiency and improve predictive capabilities. Then, you’ll learn how to leverage Vision capabilities for quality control, Form Recognizer to streamline supply chain nuances, language understanding to improve customer service, and Cognitive Search for next-generation knowledge-mining solutions. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to implement various Cognitive Services solutions that will help you enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve the customer experience at your organization. You’ll also be well equipped to automate mundane tasks by reaping the full potential of OpenAI.

Who is this book for?

This book is for data scientists, technology leaders, and software engineers looking to implement Azure Cognitive Services with the help of sample use cases derived from success stories. Experience with Python as well as an overall understanding of the Azure Portal with related services such as Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Functions will help you make the most of this book.

What you will learn

  • Master cost-effective deployment of Azure Cognitive Services
  • Develop proven solutions from an architecture and development standpoint
  • Understand how Cognitive Services are deployed and customized
  • Evaluate various uses of Cognitive Services with different mediums
  • Disseminate Azure costs for Cognitive Services workloads smoothly
  • Deploy next-generation Knowledge Mining solutions with Cognitive Search
  • Explore the current and future journey of OpenAI
  • Understand the value proposition of different AI projects

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Table of Contents

21 Chapters
Part 1: Ocean Smart – an AI Success Story Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1: How Azure AI Changed Ocean Smart Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: Why Azure Cognitive Services? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: Architectural and Cost Optimization Considerations Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 2: Deploying Next-Generation Knowledge Mining Solutions with Azure Cognitive Search Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: Deriving Value from Knowledge Mining Solutions in Azure Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Azure Cognitive Search Overview and Implementation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: Exploring Further Azure Cognitive Services for Successful KM Solutions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: Pulling It All Together for a Complete KM Solution Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 3: Other Cognitive Services That Will Help Your Company Optimize Operations Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: Decluttering Paperwork with Form Recognizer Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: Identifying Problems with Anomaly Detector Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 10: Streamlining the Quality Control Process with Custom Vision Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 11: Deploying a Content Moderator Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 12: Using Personalizer to Cater to Your Audience Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 13: Improving Customer Experience with Speech to Text Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 14: Using Language Services in Chat Bots and Beyond Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 15: Surveying Our Progress Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 16: Appendix – Azure OpenAI Overview Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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A great, thorough checklist for how to justify and implement an AI solution using Azure cognitive services.Author outlines an easily readable flow, first with a full ROI justification, next with a high-level review of the services and how they will fit into the overall project, and then the actual implementation with details and examples. All examples use a fictitious “real-world” company throughout the book. It allows readers to relate to their company's challenges and how Azure cognitive services can help the bottom line.
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Mark Kelly Jul 01, 2023
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This book really helped me better articulate a good used case for AI at my company. I’m looking forward to using the guidance provided to hopefully use AI to improve our business.
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C. E. Joakim Oct 29, 2023
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I really like how the author created a series of practical and real-world scenarios for the use of Azure Cognitive Services. No 'hello world' examples here. Just nice realistic examples that build from chapter to chapter. I really like the REST-based API of these PaaS services, too; quite easy to use.
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M. Leger Jun 17, 2023
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Practical Guide to Azure Cognitive Services lives up to its name and does an excellent job navigating the reader through the myriad of service offerings that make up Azure Cognitive Services. The author provides examples that solve legitimate business pain points and are easy to comprehend. Each solution presented in the book starts with an overarching goal and then drills down into the details of an AI implementation. The final product always tying back to the business goals completed and achievements unlocked. I appreciated the formula of defining the problem, implementing a solution in detail, and measuring the results.This book is for architects and developers looking to not just build the next AI solution, but also understand the value proposition the solution brings to the business.
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David Euijoon Kim Aug 19, 2024
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“Practical Guide to Azure Cognitive Services” is like having a knowledgeable friend walk you through the maze of Azure’s AI offerings. As someone who’s always been fascinated by AI but sometimes overwhelmed by the technical jargon, this book was a breath of fresh air. The authors make complex concepts feel approachable, guiding you step-by-step with real-world examples that genuinely resonate.What I loved most was how the book balances theory with hands-on practice. You’re not just reading about Azure Cognitive Services; you’re actually building and experimenting alongside the text. It feels like a workshop in book form, where each chapter is a new project to tackle. By the end, I felt empowered, like I could take on any AI project with confidence.This book isn’t just for the tech-savvy; it’s for anyone eager to dive into AI and cloud computing. Whether you’re a beginner or looking to deepen your knowledge, you’ll find this guide to be both informative and incredibly supportive.If you’re curious about the possibilities of Azure and want a resource that’s both practical and encouraging, I highly recommend this book. It’s been a game-changer for me, and I’m sure it will be for you too.
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