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Cognitive Services—Azure Active Directory authentication and custom subdomains are now in preview
Target availability: Q4 2019
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication allows you to authenticate to Cognitive Services using Azure AD or user principals. This capability provides greater flexibility for managing access to Cognitive Services and makes it easier to use existing policies for credential rotation and to enforce custom password standards.
July 2019
Cognitive Services Form Recognizer Name Changes
Effective September 1, 2019, the meter names of Cognitive Services Form Recognizer Pre-built and Custom will change.
Cognitive Services Speech US Gov Resource GUID Change
Effective September 2, 2019, the Resource GUIDs (also known as Meter IDs) of Custom Speech endpoint hosting in Speech Services for US Gov region will change.
Cognitive Services Form Recognizer prebuilt capability
Form Recognizer learns the structure of your forms to intelligently extract text and data.
Cognitive Services Text Analytics sentiment v3 available in public preview
The latest release of the Text Analytics API's sentiment capability (v3) provides a significant improvement in detecting positive, neutral, and negative sentiment of text documents. It is available in public preview Central Canada, East Asia, and Central US.
June 2019
Public Preview: Immersive Reader, an Azure Cognitive Service
Immersive Reader is an Azure Cognitive Service for developers who want to embed inclusive capabilities into their apps for enhancing text reading and comprehension for users regardless of age or ability.
Cognitive Services Text Analytics' Named Entity Recognition is now available
We are happy to announce the general availability of Named Entity Recognition supporting English and Spanish languages as part of Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics API.
May 2019
Significant new updates to Azure Cognitive Services
We are introducing a new category in Cognitive Services called Decision that reflects the evolution of the product portfolio. We are also introducing new services and capabilities under the Vision, Speech and Language categories. And, we are continuing to make more Cognitive Services available on the edge and on-premises with containers. <br> <a href="https://aka.ms/Build2019_AI-ML" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog</a>
April 2019
Anomaly Detector is now available
Anomaly Detector, a new service within Azure Cognitive Services, is now available for developers. Easily embed anomaly detection capabilities into your apps to quickly identify problems and help minimize loss and customer impact.
Cognitive Services Custom Vision is now available
Easily customize your own state-of-the-art computer vision models for your unique use case. Just upload a few labeled images and let Custom Vision Service do the hard work. With just one click, you can export trained models to be run on a device or as Docker containers.
January 2019
Azure Cognitive Services Custom Speech Model Hosting resource GUID change
Effective April 1, 2019, the resource GUIDs and the unit of measure for Azure Cognitive Services Custom Speech Model Hosting will change.
December 2018
Cognitive Services Speech Services neural text-to-speech capability is in preview
Cognitive Services Speech Services now offers a neural text-to-speech capability in preview. Use this capability to deploy voices to apps that are nearly indistinguishable from the human voice.
Connect Cognitive Services subscription to enable unlimited skillset execution
Starting December 21, 2018, you’ll be able to associate your Cognitive Services subscription with an Azure Search skillset. The skillset execution will be charged as part of the Cognitive Services subscription. On December 21, 2018, we’ll also begin charging for image extraction as part of our document-cracking stage. Text extraction from documents will continue to be offered at no additional cost.
Custom Translation capability of Text Translator
Announcing general availability of custom translation capability in Translator Text Cognitive Service
Language Understanding Container Support: Preview
Announcing Language Understanding Cognitive Service Container Support in Preview
November 2018
Azure Cognitive Services Containers are in preview
Deploy Azure Cognitive Services on-premises and on the edge with container support in Cognitive Services. Cognitive Services containers allow developers to use the same intelligent APIs that are available in Azure, but with the flexibility that comes with Docker containers.
Azure Cognitive Services new enhancements
New enhancements include Logo Detection in Custom Vision Service and Translation improvements.
October 2018
Azure Cognitive Services available in new regions
New regions are now available for Azure Cognitive Services. The Content Moderator, Computer Vision, Face, Translator Text, and Language Understanding (LUIS) Services are now generally available in US Government regions.
September 2018
Azure Cognitive Services—Speech Service now generally available
Speech service is now generally available, combining the following capabilities in one service: speech-to-text; text-to-speech; custom speech; and speech translation.
July 2018
Public preview: Speech SDK 0.5.0 for Cognitive Services
Version 0.5.0 of the Speech SDK for Cognitive Services has been released with support for UWP, .NET Standard, and Java; feature updates; and bug fixes.
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