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Monthly updates for October 2021

Oct 19

Public preview: Azure Percept DK September (2109) software update is available

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure Percept September update includes fixes related to security and Wi-Fi/Network.

  • Azure Percept
  • Security
  • Features
  • Operating System
Oct 18

OCR (Read) supports 122 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview

IN PREVIEW

Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with new languages including Russian, Bulgarian, other Cyrillic and more Latin languages. This release also highlight handwritten OCR support for many languages, along with enhancements for digital PDFs and Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) text in identity documents.

  • Azure AI Vision
  • Azure AI services
  • Features
Oct 13

Azure Machine Learning now generally available in West US 3

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Machine learning, bringing AI to everyone with an end-to-end, scalable, trusted platform available in West US 3.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Regions & Datacenters
Oct 13

Azure Machine Learning announcements - Oct 2021 generally available capabilities

NOW AVAILABLE

New features now generally available include authenticate with Managed Identities, simplify data upload with dataset uploads, parallel run step with partitioned dataset, and create and edit environments using Environments UI.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features
Oct 13

Azure Machine Learning announcements - Oct 2021 public preview capabilities

IN PREVIEW

New features now available in public preview include compute instance and cluster No Public IP, Hashicorp Terraform configuration templates, and AutoML for images.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features
Oct 11

General availability: Azure Translator now supports more than 100 languages and dialects

NOW AVAILABLE

Translator now supports more than 100 languages and dialects to help you streamline your translation workflows.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features
Oct 5

Azure Applied AI Services | Latest public preview enhancements to Azure Form Recognizer

IN PREVIEW

Azure Form Recognizer now offers a pre-built version of the service in preview for document extraction as well as the following capabilities in preview: signature detection, hotel receipts processing, and deeper extraction of content from US driver's licenses. In addition, the service is now easier to use with Form Recognizer Studio and new REST APIs.

  • Services

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