Microsoft has introduced the ‘Cortana Intelligence Suite’, formerly known as the Cortana Analytics Suite at the // Build 2016 conference. The Suite is powered by research into big data, machine learning, perception, analytics and intelligent bots.
The service is built on Microsoft Azure and can be used by developers and businesses to create intelligent solutions, including new apps that learn about world and bots and agents that interact with people in personalized, intelligent ways. The Cortana Intelligence Suite gets new additions with Cognitive Services and Bot Framework.
Microsoft Cognitive Services lets you build apps with powerful algorithms using just a few lines of code and these apps work across devices and platforms such as iOS, Android, and Windows. Twenty-two APIs are available to developers today including Search, Vision, Language, and so on. This platform will link together a number of Microsoft capabilities and machine learning services. Microsoft Cognitive Services is a collection of intelligence Application Program Interface (APIs) that allows systems to see, hear, speak, understand and interpret the users’ needs using natural methods of communication.
The company showcased a Seeing API which inspired Saqib Shaikh, a visually impaired software engineer to build an app that is capable of describing people and places surrounding him with voice. The app is built is a pair of Pivothead SMART glasses and a smartphone which lets him take photos of the surroundings and the AI image recognition program describes what it sees to him.
In case of Bot Framework, it can be used by developers programming in any language to build intelligent bots that enable customers to chat using natural language on a wide variety of platforms including text/SMS, Office 365, Skype, Slack, the Web and more.
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