Overview of Azure Cognitive Services

• Azure Cognitive services are a bunch of services available in the Microsoft Azure portal which helps the developers and solution architects to build intelligent applications.
• As we know, To build intelligent applications programmatically, we need to have professional skills in Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI. However, using the services provided by Azure, we can build such applications without direct knowledge of the skills mentioned above.
• Another significant feature of Azure cognitive services is we can easily provision resources of cognitive services in a matter of minutes and consulate in our project easily and quickly.
• There are various categories in Azure Cognitive services such as Vision, Speech, Language, and Decision. Moving forward let us discuss more about Language service in Azure Cognitive services.

Azure Cognitive Services: Language Service

• To understand the significance of Azure Language service let us dive into a generalized example.
• Imagine you are building an application that receives the user’s input text analyzes the sentiment of the input and generates an accurate response based on the sentiment of the user’s input. This can be done using Azure Language service.
• Azure Language service helps your app understand the meaning of the unstructured text.

Within the Azure Lnagugae service, we have a few categories where the user input type can fall into:

• Text analysis: This service can be used to analyze a textual input. The user’s sentiment can be captured based on the textual input they entered.
• Translator text: This service is used to translate the user’s input text from one language to another language, making your application more suitable for domain-specific or niche scenarios.
• QnA maker(Knowledge API): This service can be used to create a conversational question-and-answer layer on top of your knowledge base or information. This Knowledge base could be some PDF or Word manuals or even a website.
• Language Understanding(LUIS): This service can help you to build your next personal assistant. For instance, you can capture a user command such as turn on the lights, pass it to this service and the service can find the intent behind the user command.
• Immersive Reader: This service is used to help people with dyslexia sort of problems. This service helps the users to make the web content more accessible. The users can adjust the font size, change the colors, translate the text, etc.

These are the main services of Azure language service.

In our daily lives, we use many kinds of embedded services within web applications such as chatbots. Embedded chatbots are widely used in web and mobile applications. There are many languages present in the market that support chatbot building, but this article, lets us understand how to build a chatbot using Azure language service. Before actually diving into the overview of Azure language service, let us understand Azure cognitive services.