Working with Microsoft Cognitive Text Analytics

Microsoft Cognitive Text Analytics API is a Cloud-based machine learning service that provides advanced natural language processing. The Text Analytics service provides sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, and language detection. This API supports a total of 120 languages. The Text Analysis API returns the detected language details and a numeric score between 0 and 1; if the score is close to 1, that indicates 100% certainty that the identified language is true.

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Integrating Cortana with the Universal Windows Platform

Three mobile platforms, iOS, Android, and Windows, has been improving their digital assistants ("Siri" on iOS platform, "Google Now" on Android, and "Cortana" on Windows) very frequently. All these digital assistants offer search device data and Cloud-based information. Cortana's voice command features integrated into Windows 10 enable developers to give users convenient ways to access data. Cortana offers integration into Bing, Office 365, and local data sources. With a wide range of features, Cortana helps users organize and manage their data easily. Cortana also exposes an interface to developers that permits applications to integrate into the Cortana search experience. In this article, I'll walk through you Cortana integration with the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) travel app.

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Adding Facial Recognition to Your Apps

The Microsoft Cognitive Services Face API is a Cloud-based service with the most advanced machine learning algorithms. It offers detection of faces in images with attributes, extract features such as gender and age, organize images into groups, and identify individuals. The Ace API can detect up to 64 faces with high precision face location in an image. You have to specify image by bytes or a valid image URL. Cognitive Services even has an API for detecting individuals' emotions based on their facial expressions. Microsoft is currently offering a free plan with limited calls of 30,000 transactions per month. To calculate pricing above the mentioned number of free transaction, please visit URL given.

Read my article for details..http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/azure/analyzing-image-content-programmatically-using-the-microsoft-cognitive-vision-api.html 

Azure monthly credit for MSDN subscription

How to get monthly azure credit for MSDN subscription...

For each MSDN subscription there are free monthly credits can be used on any Azure service including Virtual Machines, Websites, Cloud Services, Mobile Services, Storage, SQL Database, Content Delivery Network, HDInsight, Media Services, and many more.

Following link describes how to use that monthly credit for Azure service subscription
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/msgulfcommunity/2014/09/15/how-to-activate-azure-benefit-for-msdn-subscribers/

How to set up cognitive services after subscriptions..

After Azure subscription please configure cognitive services, please refer following link
https://elbruno.com/2016/04/05/cognitiveservices-how-to-start-with-some-basic-azure-configuration-yes-cool-and-updated-projectoxford/