Last month we announced new features for Microsoft Project Oxford machine learning APIs, enabling developers across different platforms to easily add intelligence to applications without having to be AI experts. Project Oxford is just one instance of a broader class of work Microsoft is pursuing around artificial intelligence, and our vision for more personal computing experiences and enhanced productivity aided by systems that increasingly can see, hear, speak, understand and even begin to reason.

Today, the Speaker Recognition APIs and Video APIs are available in public preview, and the Custom Recognition Intelligence Service (CRIS) is accepting invites at www.ProjectOxford.ai. Read more in the blog.