Real-time Speech transcription and translation has never been easier

Keeping up with the speech services you will notice a few nice additions to the speech service. Besides the previous features like Text-To-Speech or Speech-To-Text (tutorials for both can be found here), the speech service has expanded to several new cool features out-of-the-box! Speech-To-Text and Speech translation are now real-time …

Introducing the Personalizer, Personalized experiences made easy

Among the newest Cognitive Services published in review is the Personilizer in the Decision category. Personilizer is an Azure AI service that delivers a personalized user experience for your applications. You can use Personalizer to: Personalize what article is highlighted on a news website. Optimize ad placement on a website. …

Azure AI comes to Office365 Business Applications

Alysa Taylor, Corporate Vice President of Business Applications and Industry in Microsoft, announced recently several AI Insights for Office365 and Microsoft Dynamics 365. What is Azure AI? Azure AI is a set of AI services built on Microsoft’s breakthrough innovation from decades of world-class research in vision, speech, language processing, and custom …

Introducing Immersive Reader, a new Azure Cognitive Service

During the summer a new Azure Cognitive Service was announced, the Immersive Reader in the Language category. Developers can now use this service to embed inclusive capabilities into their apps for enhancing text reading and comprehension for users regardless of age or ability. Features The Immersive Reader can boost reading and comprehension …

.NET Core 3 Released

As you might know .NET Core 3 was released a couple of days ago and it came with some exciting features including adding Windows Forms and WPF, new JSON APIs, support for ARM64 and improving performance. C# 8 is also part of this release, which includes nullable, async streams, and …