The power of the cloud is a bit fuzzy to most of us, but Microsoft wants to improve that by giving developers a series of API tools it has dubbed Cognitive Services to make their software far smarter, including tools for trainable speech-to-text processing and a whole new grade of object recognition.
Drizzle a bit of API-enabled artificial intelligence on your applications with Microsoft’s new Cognitive Services.
Under the slogan of “Give your apps a human side”, Cognitive Services is a collection of APIs for developers to use in their applications. Two examples demoed at the Build conference includes a brand new object recognition engine, which is likely to replace Project Oxford. To demo what the API can do, Microsoft created Captionbot.ai, which is a tremendously addictive (and science-fiction grade awesome).
The other API that was demoed was custom voice-recognition tools for audio recognition, to be able to recognise low-grade audio. This might include transcription of voices with heavy accents, children, speech impediments, or audio with a particular type of background noise, such as audio captured at a drive-through with particular types of highway noise etc.
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