Artificial Intelligence for .NET: Speech, Language, and Search: Building Smart Applications with Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs

Artificial Intelligence for .NET: Speech, Language, and Search: Building Smart Applications with Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs

<div><div> <p>Get introduced to the world of artificial intelligence with this accessible and practical guide. Build applications that make intelligent use of language and user interaction to better compete in today€s marketplace. Discover how your application can deeply understand and interpret content on the web or a user€s machine, intelligently react to direct user interaction through speech or text, or make smart recommendations on products or services that are tailored to each individual user.</p> <p>With Microsoft Cognitive Services, you can do all this and more utilizing a set of easy-to-use APIs that can be consumed on the desktop, web, or mobile devices. Developers normally think of AI implementation as a tough task involving writing complex algorithms. This book aims to remove the anxiety by creating a cognitive application with a few lines of code. There is a wide range of Cognitive Services APIs available. This book focuses on some of the most useful and powerful ways that your application can make intelligent use of language.</p> <p><i>Artificial Intelligence for .NET: Speech, Language, and Search </i>will show you how you can start building amazing capabilities into your applications today.</p> </div><div><b>What You'll Learn</b><br/></div><div><ul><li>Understand the underpinnings of artificial intelligence through practical examples and scenarios</li><li>Get started building an AI-based application in Visual Studio</li><li>Build a text-based conversational interface for direct user interaction</li><li>Use the Cognitive Services Speech API to recognize and interpret speech</li><li>Look at different models of language, including natural language processing, and how to apply them in your Visual Studio application</li><li>Reuse Bing search capabilities to better understand a user€s intention<br/></li><li>Work with recommendation engines and integrate them into your apps<br/></li></ul></div><div></div></div><div><b>Who This Book Is For</b><br/></div><br/><div>Developers working on a range of platforms, from .NET and Windows to mobile devices. Examples are given in C#. No prior experience with AI techniques or theory is required.</div><div><br/></div>