Preface

Azure Cognitive Services is a set of pre-built AI solution APIs that can be leveraged from existing applications, allowing customers to take advantage of Microsoft’s award-winning vision, speech, text, and decision AI capabilities. Developers working with Azure Cognitive Services will be able to get hands-on with this practical guide and deploy AI solutions. The book provides industry-specific examples of implementations to get you into production in no time. You’ll begin with an overview of how Azure Cognitive Services have been categorized and the benefits of embracing AI solutions for practical business applications. Next, we’ll dive into Ocean Smart, a technically advanced seafood distributor that has adopted all the benefits the Azure platform has to offer by using Cognitive Services to attain operational efficiencies and predictive capabilities. Later, you’ll learn how they implemented the Vision capabilities for quality control, Forms Recognizer to streamline supply chain nuances, Language Understanding to improve their customer service, Cognitive Search for a next-generation knowledge mining solution, and so on. By the end of this book, you will be able to implement various Cognitive Services solutions that will help you to drive efficiencies, reduce costs, and improve the customer experience at your organization.