Latest Updates for Azure Artificial Intelligent (Azure AI)

1. What's New with Azure AI
Marvin Heng | @hmheng
www.techconnect.io

2. Agenda
• What is new with Azure AI

3. Azure AI: Build mission-critical AI apps
with new Cognitive Services capabilities

4. What is new with Azure AI?

5. Microsoft AI

7. Form
Recognizer

8. What’s New: Form Recognizer
• v2.0 is generally available
• New SDKs: Updated SDKs for .NET, Python, Java and Javascript.
• Table enhancements and Extraction enhancements
• Currency Support
• Azure Gov
• Enhanced Security Features
• Bring your own key/ custom-managed keys
• Private Endpoints

9. What’s New: Form Recognizer
• REST API reference is available
• New languages supported In addition to English, the following languages are now
supported:
• for Layout and Train Custom Model: English (en), Chinese (Simplified) (zh-Hans), Dutch (nl),
French (fr), German (de), Italian (it), Portuguese (pt) and Spanish (es).
• Checkbox / Selection Mark detection
• Model Compose allows multiple models to be composed and called with a single
model ID. Model compose is available for Train Custom Model - Train with labels.

10. What’s New: Form Recognizer
• Model name add a friendly name to your custom models for easier
management and tracking.
• New pre-built model for Business Cards for extracting common fields in
English, language business cards.
• New locales for pre-built Receipts,
• EN-US, EN-AU, EN-CA, EN-GB, EN-IN
• Quality improvements for Layout, Train Custom Model
• Train without Labels and Train with Labels.

11. Demo
Form Recognizer
Marvin Heng | @hmheng

12. What’s New:
Form OCR Testing Tool
• Available @ https://fott.azurewebsites.net

13. Custom
Commands

14. What’s New: Custom Commands
•Allows developer to create task-oriented voice applications
more easily for command-and-control scenarios that have a
well-defined set of variables.
• Eg (Thermostats for voice-controlled smart home)
•Role-based Access Control

15. Neural Text to Speech

16. What’s New: Neural Text to speech
• 15 new natural-sounding voices based on state-of-the-art neural speech
synthesis models:
• Salma in Arabic (Egypt), Zariyah in Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Alba in Catalan (Spain),
Christel in Danish (Denmark), Neerja in English (India), Noora in Finnish (Finland),
Swara in Hindi (India), Colette in Dutch (Netherland), Zofia in Polish (Poland),
Fernanda in Portuguese (Portugal), Dariya in Russian (Russia), Hillevi in Swedish
(Sweden), Achara in Thai (Thailand), HiuGaai in Chinese (Cantonese, Traditional)
and HsiaoYu in Chinese (Taiwanese Mandarin).

17. Text Analytics for Health

18. What’s New: Text Analytics for Health
•Text Analytics for Health public preview
• Extract information from unstructured English-language text in clinical documents
such as: patient intake forms, doctor's notes, research papers and discharge
summaries
•Text Analytics for health container usage is currently FOC.

19. What’s New: Text Analytics for Health
•General API Updates:
• Model version 2020-07-01 for the v3 /keyphrases, /pii and /languages
endpoints, which adds:
• Additional government and country specific entity categories for Named
Entity Recognition.
• Norwegian and Turkish support in Sentiment Analysis v3.

21. Demo
Text Analytics for Health
Marvin Heng | @hmheng

22. Things you may be interested in.
• Form Recognizer:
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/form-
recognizer/language-support?WT.mc_id=AI-MVP-5003227
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/form-
recognizer/quickstarts/label-tool?WT.mc_id=AI-MVP-5003227
• Form OCR Testing Tool
• On Azure @ https://fott.azurewebsites.net/
• GitHub @ https://github.com/microsoft/OCR-Form-
Tools/?ocid=AID2463683&WT.mc_id=AI-MVP-5003227

23. Things you may be interested in.
•AI Labs@hmheng (GitHub):
https://github.com/hmheng/AILabs

24. Thank You!
Marvin Heng | @hmheng