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Andy Beatman

Andy Beatman

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure AI

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7 ways generative AI is bringing bionic business to manufacturing 

By Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure AI

In partnership with several manufacturing companies, Microsoft aims to enable seamless connectivity, data analysis, and AI-driven insights across the production process. By leveraging Azure’s capabilities, manufacturers can optimize production operations, improve equipment maintenance, and enhance product quality. 

Healthcare revolution with Microsoft Azure: An AI wellness check   

By Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure AI

As generative AI continues to evolve, we anticipate a future where healthcare is increasingly able to handle more challenging cases and discover solutions to some of the most pressing healthcare issues facing individuals and communities worldwide today. Microsoft’s innovative initiatives in this space highlight the immense potential of generative AI.

Azure OpenAI Service: 10 ways generative AI is transforming businesses 

By Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure AI

From generating realistic images and videos to enhancing customer experiences, generative AI has proven to be a versatile tool across various industries. Here are 10 ways businesses are utilizing this game-changing technology to transform their operations and drive growth.

3 Microsoft Azure AI product features that accelerate language learning 

By Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure AI

The Microsoft Azure Cognitive Speech Services platform is a comprehensive collection of technologies and services aimed at accelerating the incorporation of speech into applications and amplifying differentiation to the market as a result. Among the services available are Speech to Text, Text to Speech, custom neural voice (CNV) conversation transcription service, speaker recognition, Speech translation, Speech SDK, and Speech Device Development Kit (DDK).

Published • 4 min read

6 ways to improve accessibility with Azure AI 

By Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure AI

Microsoft and Azure AI offer a range of accessibility solutions to help organizations create more inclusive experiences for their users. These AI-powered tools can help individuals with disabilities better access and engage with digital content, whether it’s through speech-to-text transcription, image captioning, or text-to-speech translation.

From Teams to PowerPoint: 10 ways Azure AI enhances the Microsoft Apps we use everyday 

By Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure AI

Azure AI is driving innovation and improving experiences for employees, users, and customers in a variety of ways, from increasing workday productivity to promoting inclusion and accessibility. The…

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Improve speech-to-text accuracy with Azure Custom Speech 

By Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure AI

With Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services for Speech, customers can build voice-enabled apps confidently and quickly in more than 140 languages. We make it easy for customers to transcribe speech to text (STT) with high accuracy, produce natural-sounding text-to-speech (TTS) voices, and translate spoken audio.

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Image Analysis 4.0 with new API endpoint and OCR model in preview 

By Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure AI

We are thrilled to announce the preview release of Computer Vision Image Analysis 4.0 which combines existing and new visual features such as read optical character recognition (OCR), captioning, image classification and tagging, object detection, people detection, and smart cropping into one API.

3 ways Azure Speech transforms game development with AI 

By Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure AI

With Azure Cognitive Services for Speech, customers can build voice-enabled apps confidently and quickly with the Speech SDK. We make it easy for customers to transcribe speech to text (STT) with high accuracy, produce natural-sounding text-to-speech (TTS) voices, and translate spoken audio.

Published • 3 min read

Announcing new voices and emotions to Azure Neural Text to Speech 

By Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure AI

Azure Neural Text to Speech (TTS), a powerful speech synthesis capability of Azure Cognitive Services, enables developers to convert text to lifelike speech using AI. Enterprises and agencies utilize Azure Neural TTS for video game characters, chatbots, content readers, and more. The Azure TTS product team is continuously working on bringing new voice styles and emotions to the US market and beyond.