You're reading from Practical Guide to Azure Cognitive Services Leverage the power of Azure OpenAI to optimize operations, reduce costs, and deliver cutting-edge AI solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801812917

Length 454 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Neural Networks

Authors (3):

Andy Roberts

Chris Seferlis

Christopher Nellis

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Ocean Smart – an AI Success Story

2. Chapter 1: How Azure AI Changed Ocean Smart FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Why Azure Cognitive Services?

4. Chapter 3: Architectural and Cost Optimization Considerations

5. Part 2: Deploying Next-Generation Knowledge Mining Solutions with Azure Cognitive Search

6. Chapter 4: Deriving Value from Knowledge Mining Solutions in Azure

7. Chapter 5: Azure Cognitive Search Overview and Implementation

8. Chapter 6: Exploring Further Azure Cognitive Services for Successful KM Solutions

9. Chapter 7: Pulling It All Together for a Complete KM Solution

10. Part 3: Other Cognitive Services That Will Help Your Company Optimize Operations

11. Chapter 8: Decluttering Paperwork with Form Recognizer

12. Chapter 9: Identifying Problems with Anomaly Detector

13. Chapter 10: Streamlining the Quality Control Process with Custom Vision

14. Chapter 11: Deploying a Content Moderator

15. Chapter 12: Using Personalizer to Cater to Your Audience

16. Chapter 13: Improving Customer Experience with Speech to Text

17. Chapter 14: Using Language Services in Chat Bots and Beyond

18. Chapter 15: Surveying Our Progress

19. Chapter 16: Appendix – Azure OpenAI Overview

20. Index

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