Azure Cognitive Services
A comprehensive family of AI services and cognitive APIs to help you build intelligent apps
What is Azure Cognitive Services?
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, search, understand, and accelerate decision-making into your apps. Enable developers of all skill levels to easily add AI capabilities to their apps.
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Explore the benefits of Cognitive Services
Create customizable, pretrained models built with breakthrough AI research
Deploy Cognitive Services anywhere from the cloud to the edge with containers
Get started quickly—no machine learning expertise required
Developed with strict ethical standards, empowering responsible use with industry-leading tools and guidelines
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
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 90 supported languages.
Improve customer experiences with Speech
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 and videos
Analyze content in images and video.
Customize image recognition to fit your business needs.
Detect and identify people and emotions in images.
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See how customers are applying Cognitive Services
Accelerating innovation with Cognitive Services
Airbus uses Anomaly Detector in containers to monitor the health of its aircraft and fix potential problems before they occur, and to simplify pilot training with speech-enabled chatbots.
KPMG helps financial institutions save millions
KPMG uses Cognitive Services to transcribe and catalog thousands of calls, reducing compliance costs for its clients by as much as 80 percent.
Engaging global customers with real-time translation
Volkswagen uses Cognitive Services for high-quality real-time translations, enabling the company to better engage its global customer base.
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.
BBC innovates how it delivers trusted content
The BBC used Azure Cognitive Services and Bot Service to create an end-to-end, customized digital voice assistant that captures its brand identity and helps it establish a new conversational relationship with its broad audience.
Mine operator increases sustainability
Minsur uses Cognitive Services to closely monitor the sustainability of its process for transforming polluted water into an agricultural resource.
Documentation, training, and resources
Documentation and blogs
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 percent of the time. No service-level agreement (SLA) is provided for the Free tier. See SLA details.
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See the compliance and privacy page for details.