{"id":565,"date":"2020-07-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/azure-ai-build-missioncritical-ai-apps-with-new-cognitive-services-capabilities"},"modified":"2025-06-30T04:24:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:24:55","slug":"azure-ai-build-missioncritical-ai-apps-with-new-cognitive-services-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/azure-ai-build-missioncritical-ai-apps-with-new-cognitive-services-capabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure AI: Build mission-critical AI apps with new Cognitive Services capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the world adjusts to new ways of working and staying connected, we remain committed to providing Azure AI solutions to help organizations invent with purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Building on our vision to empower all developers to use AI to achieve more, today we\u2019re excited to announce expanded capabilities within Azure Cognitive Services, including:.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Text Analytics for health preview.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Form Recognizer general availability.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Custom Commands general availability.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">New Neural Text to Speech voices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Companies in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/2020\/06\/18\/microsoft-azure-will-become-the-preferred-cloud-platform-for-johns-hopkins-inhealth-precision-medicine-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">healthcare<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/customers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/story\/789698-progressive-insurance-cognitive-services-insurance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insurance<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/customers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/story\/811327-talentcloud-partner-professional-services-azure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sustainable farming<\/a>, and other fields continue to choose Azure AI to build and deploy AI applications to transform their businesses. According to IDC<sup>1<\/sup>, by 2022, 75 percent of enterprises will deploy AI-based solutions to improve operational efficiencies and deliver enhanced customer experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To meet this growing demand, today\u2019s product updates expand on existing language, vision, and speech capabilities in Azure Cognitive Services to help developers build mission-critical AI apps that <strong>enable richer insights<\/strong>, <strong>save time and reduce costs<\/strong>, and <strong>improve customer engagement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"get-rich-insights-with-powerful-natural-language-processing\">Get rich insights with powerful natural language processing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the ways organizations are adapting is scaling the ability to rapidly process data and generate new insights from data. COVID-19 has accelerated the urgency, particularly for the healthcare industry. With the overwhelming amount of healthcare data generated every year<sup>2<\/sup>, it is increasingly critical for providers to quickly unlock access to this information to find new solutions that improve patient outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/6c142214-bbee-499c-bf07-e565fcbc4294.webp\" alt=\"Uncover insights in medical data with Text Analytics for health.\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" title=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are excited to introduce <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/cognitive-services\/text-analytics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Text Analytics for health<\/a>, a new feature of Text Analytics that enables health care providers, researchers, and companies to extract rich insights and relationships from unstructured medical data. Trained on a diverse range of medical data\u2014covering various formats of clinical notes, clinical trials protocols, and more\u2014the health feature is capable of processing a broad range of data types and tasks, without the need for time-intensive, manual development of custom models to extract insights from the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft partnered with the Allen Institute of AI and leading research groups to prepare the <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/open-datasets\/catalog\/covid-19-open-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID-19 Open Research Dataset<\/a>. Based on the resource of over 47,000 scholarly articles, we developed a <a href=\"https:\/\/covid19search.azurewebsites.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID-19 search engine<\/a> using Text Analytics for health and Cognitive Search, enabling researchers to generate new insights in support of the fight against the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, we continue to make advancements in natural language processing (NLP) so developers can more quickly build apps that generate insights about sentiment in text. The <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cognitive-services\/text-analytics\/how-tos\/text-analytics-how-to-sentiment-analysis?tabs=version-3#opinion-mining\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opinion mining<\/a> feature in Text Analytics assigns sentiment to specific features or topics so that users can better understand customer feedback from social media data, review sites, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"save-time-and-reduce-costs-by-turning-forms-into-usable-data\">Save time and reduce costs by turning forms into usable data<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lot of the unstructured data is contained in forms that have tables, objects, and other elements. These types of documents typically take manual labeling by document type or intensive coding to extract insights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re making <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/cognitive-services\/form-recognizer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Form Recognizer<\/a> generally available to help developers extract information from millions of documents efficiently and accurately\u2014no data science expertise needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/9f941a68-ca14-412d-be70-049345540ed0.webp\" alt=\"Extract text and structure from documents with Form Recognizer.\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" title=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Customers like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sogeti.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sogeti<\/a>, part of the Capgemini Group, are using Form Recognizer to help their clients more quickly process large volumes of digital documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cSogeti constantly looks for new ways to help clients in their digital transformation journey by providing cutting-edge solutions in AI and machine learning. Our Cognitive Document Processing (CDP) offer enables clients to process and classify unstructured documents and extract data with high accuracy resulting in reduced operating costs and processing time. CDP leverages the powerful cognitive and tagging capabilities of the Form Recognizer to extract effortlessly, keyless paired data and other relevant information from scanned\/digital unstructured documents, further reducing the overall process time.\u201d <\/em><strong>&#8211; Mark Oost \u2013 Chief Technology Officer at Sogeti<\/strong><strong>, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/customers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/story\/814361-wilson-allen-partner-professional-services-azure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wilson Allen<\/a>, a leading provider of consulting and analytics solutions, is using Form Recognizer to help law and other professional services firms process and evaluate documents (PDFs and images, including financial forms, loan applications, and more), and train custom models to accurately extract values from complex forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThe addition of Form Recognizer to our toolkit is helping us turn large amounts of unstructured data into valuable information, saving more than 400 hours of manual data entry and freeing up time for employees to work on more strategic tasks.\u201d <\/em><strong>&#8211; Norm Mullock \u2013 VP of Strategy at Wilson Allen<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"improve-customer-engagement-with-voice-enabled-apps\">Improve customer engagement with voice-enabled apps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People and organizations continue to look for ways to enrich customer experiences while balancing the transition to digital-led, touch-free operations<sup>2<\/sup>. Advancements in voice technology are empowering developers to create more seamless, natural, voice-enabled experiences for customers to interact with brands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of those advancements, <a href=\"https:\/\/speech.microsoft.com\/customcommands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Custom Commands<\/a>, a capability of Speech in Cognitive Services, is now generally available. Custom Commands allows developers to create task-oriented voice applications more easily for command-and-control scenarios that have a well-defined set of variables, like voice-controlled smart home thermostats. It brings together <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/cognitive-services\/speech-to-text\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speech to Text<\/a> for speech recognition, <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/cognitive-services\/language-understanding-intelligent-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Language Understanding<\/a> for capturing spoken entities, and voice response with <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/cognitive-services\/text-to-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Text to Speech<\/a>, to accelerate the addition of voice capabilities to your apps with a low-code authoring experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, Neural <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/cognitive-services\/text-to-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Text to Speech<\/a> is expanding language support with 15 new natural-sounding voices based on state-of-the-art neural speech synthesis models: Salma in Arabic (Egypt), Zariyah in Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Alba in Catalan (Spain), Christel in Danish (Denmark), Neerja in English (India), Noora in Finnish (Finland), Swara in Hindi (India), Colette in Dutch (Netherland), Zofia in Polish (Poland), Fernanda in Portuguese (Portugal), Dariya in Russian (Russia), Hillevi in Swedish (Sweden), Achara in Thai (Thailand), HiuGaai in Chinese (Cantonese, Traditional) and HsiaoYu in Chinese (Taiwanese Mandarin).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Customers are already adding speech capabilities to their apps to improve customer engagement. With Cognitive Services and Bot Service, the BBC created an <a href=\"https:\/\/customers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/story\/754836-bbc-media-entertainment-azure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI-enabled voice assistant<\/a>, Beeb, that delivers a more engaging, tailored experience for its diverse audiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are excited to introduce these new product innovations that empower all developers to build mission-critical AI apps. To learn more, check out our resources below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"get-started-today\">Get started today<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learn more with the resources below and get started with <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/cognitive-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure Cognitive Services<\/a> and an <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/free\/cognitive-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure free account<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><strong>Text Analytics for health<\/strong>: Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/TAforHealth-Blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technical blog<\/a> for more information. See it in action with the <a href=\"https:\/\/covid19search.azurewebsites.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID-19 search engine demo<\/a>. Enter medical terms such as \u201cibuprofen\u201d in the search bar and try exploring graph relationships.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><strong>Form Recognizer<\/strong>: Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/azure-ai\/accelerate-data-extraction-from-your-documents-with-form\/ba-p\/1507365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technical blog<\/a> for more information. See it in action with the <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/cognitive-services\/form-recognizer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Form Recognizer demo<\/a>, showcasing the ability to extract information from different types of forms. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cognitive-services\/form-recognizer\/quickstarts\/client-library?tabs=windows&amp;pivots=programming-language-csharp#authenticate-the-client\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Access the code samples<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><strong>Custom Commands<\/strong>: Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/CustomCommands-Blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technical blog<\/a> for more information. See it in action with the inventory, hospitality, and <a href=\"https:\/\/speech.microsoft.com\/customcommands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">automotive demos<\/a>. Start by selecting your scenario and saying a command out loud per the prompt. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Azure-Samples\/Cognitive-Services-Voice-Assistant\/blob\/master\/docs\/CreateSampleVoiceAssistant.md\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Access the code samples<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><strong>Neural Text to Speech<\/strong>: Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/NTTS-new-voices-blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technical blog<\/a> for more information. <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/cognitive-services\/text-to-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See it in action with the demo<\/a>. Use the pre-populated text or add your own, and try finetuning audio output. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Azure-Samples\/cognitive-services-speech-sdk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Access the code samples<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>1<\/sup>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US45576319\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Predictions (IDC FutureScape 2020)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>2<\/sup>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/business-functions\/marketing-and-sales\/our-insights\/adapting-customer-experience-in-the-time-of-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adapting customer experience in the time of coronavirus (McKinsey 2020)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world adjusts to new ways of working and staying connected, we remain 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