Cognitive Services
A comprehensive family of AI services and cognitive APIs to help you build intelligent apps
What is Azure Cognitive Services?
Cognitive Services bring AI within reach of every developer—without requiring machine-learning expertise. All it takes is an API call to embed the ability to see, hear, speak, search, understand, and accelerate decision-making into your apps.
Explore the benefits of Cognitive Services
Apply AI to more scenarios with the most comprehensive portfolio of domain-specific AI capabilities on the market.
Build confidently with the first AI services to achieve human parity in computer vision, speech, and language.
Deploy Cognitive Services anywhere from the cloud to the edge with containers.
Azure Cognitive Services
Make smarter decisions faster
Identify potential problems early on.
Detect potentially offensive or unwanted content.
Create rich, personalized experiences for every user.
Extract meaning from unstructured text
Help readers of all abilities comprehend text using audio and visual cues.
Build natural language understanding into apps, bots, and IoT devices.
Create a conversational question and answer layer over your data.
Detect sentiment, key phrases, and named entities.
Detect and translate more than 60 supported languages. Integrate real-time speech translation into your apps.
Integrate speech processing into apps and services
Transcribe audible speech into readable, searchable text.
Convert text to lifelike speech for more natural interfaces.
Integrate real-time speech translation into your apps.
Identify and verify the people speaking based on audio.
Identify and analyze content within images, videos, and digital ink
Analyze content in images.
Customize image recognition to fit your business needs.
Detect and identify people and emotions in images.
Extract text, key-value pairs, and tables from documents.
Recognize digital ink and handwriting, and pinpoint common shapes.
Analyze the visual and audio channels of a video, and index its content.
Find what you’re looking for from the world-wide-web
Create a custom search engine with ad-free results.
Add a variety of search image options to your app.
Recognize and classify named entities, and find search results based on them.
Turn any app into a news search resource.
Help users identify and fix word breaks, slang, names, homonyms, and brands.
Add advanced video search features to your app.
Help users complete queries faster by adding intelligent type-ahead capabilities
Enable safe, ad-free, location-aware search for your users, surfacing relevant information from web results, images, news, videos, and visuals.
Enable users to search using images.
See how customers are applying Cognitive Services
Uber boosts platform security with facial recognition
Uber uses Cognitive Services to safeguard against fraud by helping to ensure that the driver using the app matches the account on file.
Jet.com finds answers faster for its customers
Jet.com uses Cognitive Services to infuse its customer care chatbot with the intelligence to communicate using natural language.
Mine operator increases sustainability by applying custom computer vision
Minsur uses Cognitive Services to more closely monitor the sustainability of its process for transforming polluted water into an agricultural resource.
Global mobile company translates opportunity into success
The CM Translator device from Cheetah Mobile breaks down language barriers by translating conversations in real time with the click of a button.
Seattle Against Slavery combats human trafficking and saves lives—at cloud scale
This non-profit uses Cognitive Services to help like-minded organizations connect with trafficking victims, disrupt exploitation, and save lives.
Dokumentation, Schulungen und Ressourcen
Documentation and e-books
Get up and running with Cognitive Services by exploring these introductory resources.
Learning modules
Learn how to start building intelligent apps with step-by-step guidance from Microsoft Learn.
Community and Azure support
Ask questions and get support from Microsoft engineers and Azure community experts.
Frequently asked questions about Cognitive Services
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Cognitive Services is available in several regions around the world. See availability by region
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We guarantee that Cognitive Services will be available at least 99.9% of the time. No SLA is provided for the Free tier. See SLA details
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The privacy and security of your data is paramount. See compliance offerings and privacy details