New AI Services in Azure for students and academics announced at Build 2018

Azure Cognitive Services

1.Object Detection update to custom vision (preview) https://aka.ms/cognitive

2.Video Indexer (Paid Preview) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/build-2018-video-indexer-updates/

3.New OCR model (preview) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/computer-vision/

4.Speech Recognition with customization https://aka.ms/cognitive

5.Speech Synthesis with customizable voice https://cris.ai/Home/CustomVoice

6.QnA Maker (Generally Available) https://blog.botframework.com/2018/05/07/announcing-general-availability-of-qnamaker/

7.Bing Services updates https://blogs.bing.com/Developers-Blog/2018-05/six-new-and-improved-bing-ai-offerings-on-microsoft-cognitive-services

8. Cognitive Search (public preview) https://www.ailab.microsoft.com/experiments/7d6b0652-51dc-440d-a12a-481f28525143

9. Cognitive Services Labs https://labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/

Conversational AI

1.Bot Builder SDK v4 (preview) Bot Builder homepage or the Bot Builder GitHub https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/dotnet/bot-builder-dotnet-overview?view=azure-bot-service-3.0

2.Improved Bot Framework Emulator (preview) https://github.com/microsoft/botframework-emulator

3.New Bot Builder Tools https://github.com/Microsoft/botbuilder-tools

4.Bot Service Features – authentication now available https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/

5.QnA Maker (GA) https://blog.botframework.com/2018/05/07/announcing-general-availability-of-qnamaker/

6.Project Conversation Learner https://labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/en-us/project-conversation-learner

7. Project Personality Chat https://labs.cognitive.microsoft.com/en-us/project-personality-chat

Custom AI

1. Azure ML Packages Preview – https://aka.ms/aml-packages

2. Azure ML and Project Brainwave – https://aka.ms/aml-real-time-ai

3. ONNX Model Gallery https://gallery.azure.ai/models

4. ML.NET Preview https://github.com/dotnet/machinelearning

5. Vision AI Developer Kit https://github.com/azure/ai-toolkit-iot-edge https://visionaidevkit.com

Azure for Students

Get Access to Azure and these service is super simple see https://aka.ms/azure4students