Creating a more accessible world with Azure AI
January 16, 2020
Today, advancing our commitment to enhancing accessibility through technology, we’re announcing the general availability of Immersive Reader, an Azure Cognitive Service.
Artificial Intelligence
Enabling collaborative bot development across your organization for any user
December 3, 2019
Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) is enabling organizations to improve their business in areas like customer service and employee engagement by automating some of the most commonly requested services, which frees up employees to take on more value-adding activities. While the benefits of conversational AI are well established, determining who in an organization should build these solutions is not always clear.
A year of bringing AI to the edge
November 26, 2019
In an age where low-latency and data security can be the lifeblood of a business, containers make it possible for enterprises to meet these needs when harnessing artificial intelligence (AI). Since introducing Azure Cognitive Services in containers this time last year, businesses across industries have unlocked new productivity gains and insights.
Multi-language identification and transcription in Video Indexer
November 25, 2019
Multi-language speech transcription was recently introduced into Microsoft Video Indexer at the International Broadcasters Conference (IBC). It is available as a preview capability and customers can already start experiencing it in our portal.
How AI can supercharge content understanding for businesses
November 20, 2019
Organizations face challenges when it comes to extracting insights, finding meaning, and uncovering new opportunities in the vast troves of content at their disposal. In fact, 82 percent of…
PyTorch on Azure with streamlined ML lifecycle
November 18, 2019
It's exciting to see the PyTorch Community continue to grow and regularly release updated versions of PyTorch! Recent releases improve performance, ONNX export, TorchScript, C++ frontend, JIT, and distributed training. Several new experimental features, such as quantization, have also been introduced.
Delivering increased productivity for bot development and deployment
November 7, 2019
This week at Microsoft Ignite, we announced updates to our products to make it easier for organizations to build robust conversational solutions, and to deploy them wherever their customers are. We are sharing some of the highlights below.
Azure Cognitive Services for building enterprise ready scalable AI solutions
November 6, 2019
Azure Cognitive Services brings 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, understand, and accelerate decision-making into your apps.
Companies of all sizes tackle real business problems with Azure AI
November 4, 2019
Over the past few years, we’ve seen incredible transformation across industries as companies harness the power of AI to transform business processes and drive impact for their customers.
TensorFlow 2.0 on Azure: Fine-tuning BERT for question tagging
October 29, 2019
Congratulations to the TensorFlow community on the release of TensorFlow 2.0! In this blog, we aim to highlight some of the ways that Azure can streamline the building, training, and deployment of your TensorFlow model.