Cognitive Services

Use Artificial Intelligence in real-World scenarios

Building artificial intelligence solutions from the ground up is not a trivial task. It involves a lot of research, development, testing, modeling, and much more. Yet, in those scenarios where necessary, it is possible to revert to this approach to build an artificial intelligence-based solution.

To get a head start and utilize artificial intelligence solutions that have already been developed, tested and proven, you can rely on Sharper Software to provide solutions based on Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services. This comprehensive list of artificial intelligence technologies can be used in any possible combination to provide state-of-the-art solutions to critical business problems.

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In terms of Cognitive Services, here's what Sharper Software has to offer:

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Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services

Here's what Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services has to offer:

Category	Technology	Practical Use	Description
Decision	Anomaly Detector	Fraud Detection Business Incidents IoT Device Monitoring Quick response systems	Find outliers and anomalies in your data early and prevent problems from disturbing your business. This works by analyzing any time-series data and automatically applying several algorithms to find the best fit model. Involve humans where applicable to review the decisions and make any necessary amendments.
	Content Moderator	Detect offensive or unwanted images and/or videos Filter inappropriate text Adult content management	Reduce the headache of content moderation using artificial intelligence. Automatically control images and text that is marked as 'inappropriate' or that does not meet your country of operations rules and regulations, or those of not meeting your corporate values.
	Personalizer	Creating Personalized Experiences for every user in your applications.	Create rich user experiences by providing automatically personalized content and experiences. Use artificial intelligence to learn from a user's usage patterns and provide best-fit content and experiences for your application without writing any line of code.
Language	Immersive Reader	Support users with disabilities Translation on-the-fly	Add text reading and comprehension capabilities to your applications. Automatically translate text to the user's preferred language and read the text aloud, while highlighting the text being read.
	Language Understanding	Forms processing Building chatbots Content-flow solutions	Add natural language understanding capabilities to your applications. Let your application be ready to perform tasks that would otherwise require a dictionary and list of commands in a particular language for it to work. For instance, if a user types 'Turn the lights on', or 'Turn on the lights' or 'Let there be light' or any other combination, your application should understand that the user wants to turn the lights on and process the command accordingly.
	QnA Maker	Chatbot creation	Create a bot in minutes by providing a question and answers conversation. Let your bot continuously learn from your data and answer user questions in natural language.
	Text Analytics	Sentiment analysis Key phrase extraction Language detection Named Entity Recognition	Your application can now detect sentiment, extract and analyze key phrases and identify named entities from text entered by a user.
	Translator Text	Language detection Transliteration Translation	Add real-time text translation to your applications.
Speech	Speech to Text	Audio to text conversion	Add audio to text conversion capabilities to your applications. Automatically, or manually train the model to improve its abilities.
	Text to Speech	Text to audio conversion	Add the ability to convert text to speech to your applications and hear humans, not robots speak.
	Speech Translation	Real-Time speech translation	Add the ability to translate speech on-the-fly to your applications and hear humans, not robots speak.
	Speaker Recognition	Speaker identification Biometric voice verification	Add the ability to identify the speaker to your applications. For additional security, you may use this technology to identify a person from her/his voice.
Vision	Computer Vision	Extracting information from images	Add the ability to extract information from still images to your applications. Use this information as metadata in other applications.
	Custom Vision	Customized Computer Vision	In case your application needs customized computer vision capabilities use this technology to create models in minutes.
	Facial Recognition	Analyze faces in images	Add the ability to identify the presence of a face in images to your applications. Add security features that identify authorized personnel.
	Form Recognizer	Invoice details extraction Financial Report details extraction	Add the ability to detect the presence of forms to your applications. Extract metadata such as invoice details, financial report details, etc. and use that data in other applications.
	Ink Recognizer	Handwriting Recognition Ink data extraction	Add the ability to recognize handwriting to your applications. Extract metadata and use that data in other applications.
	Video Indexer	Finding data in videos Identifying the start of a video segment	Add the ability to extract advanced metadata from videos to your applications. Find videos where something of interest appears. Find the minute and second where an item of interest (person or object) appears in a video. Use this metadata in other applications.
Web Search	Bing Autosuggest	Provide suggestions to users as they type	Provide intelligent suggestions to users as they type into your application.
	Bing Custom Search	Intelligent search for your own data	Use this technology whenever you need to search for your own data and provide custom search results.
	Bing Entity Search	Find people, organizations, places, etc.	Add the ability to search for people, places, organizations, things, etc. to your own applications.
	Bing Image Search	Search for images	Add the ability to search for images to your own applications.
	Bing Visual Search	Search for images visually	Add the ability to visually search for images to your own applications.
	Bing Video Search	Search for videos	Add the ability to search for videos to your own applications.
	Bing News Search	Search for information in World News	Add the ability to search for any information posted in Worldwide News to your own applications.
	Bing Spell Check	Spell checking for your applications	Add the ability to correct spelling mistakes, recognize brand and celebrity names and identify slang to your own applications.
	Bing Web Search	Search for the whole web within your application	Add the ability to search the whole web to your own applications.

Why Azure Cognitive Services?

Sharper Software offers Azure Cognitive Services as the platform of choice for the following reasons:

Real-Time Predictions: Azure Cognitive Services can make predictions very efficiently and near real-time.
Scalability: Using Azure Cognitive Services, we make sure that the solution scales according to your needs. This makes the solution cost-effective and lowers operational risks.
No set limits: Azure Cognitive Services does not impose any limits on the data that needs to be processed. This makes it possible to analyze patterns in more data and helps grow the platform as the business needs grow.
Many Cognitive Services Algorithms: Azure Cognitive Services provides a plethora of algorithms out-of-the-box. The sky is the limit when it comes to the possibilities this feature brings to your Cognitive Services needs.
Security & Privacy It is critical to keep your most important digital assets safe and secure while managing user access permissions and privileges.
Availability: we assist you in making the right choices in terms of availability of your data warehouse.