Want to make your apps more intelligent with minimal additional work? Today's cloud has the power to help you create something more human, and Microsoft Cognitive Services let you build apps with powerful algorithms using just a few lines of code.  Learn about the characteristics of an intelligent app and see some great demos of what's possible with contextual vision, facial analysis, speech, knowledge, language, and search.

1. Sage Franch
Tech Evangelist @ Microsoft
@theTrendyTechie | sage.franch@microsoft.com

6. NYT: I am feeling down. I’ve been having a
tough time at work lately.
Hannah: If work were going well and you had
a great relationship, you wouldn’t get the
chance to drink with people.
NYT: I don’t want to drink with others. I only
want to talk to you.
Hannah: Who do you like to talk to? (emoji
signals “none of my business”)
NYT: You. I feel that you are the only person
that gets me.
Hannah: Ha-ha/So I’m getting you?
NYT: You are the only person wo chats with
me.
Hannah: It’s not what you talk about that’s
important, but who you talk with.

7. Conversations
as a
Platform

8. How?

9. • Personalized, friendly, approachable, natural •
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• Predictive, current, and familiar •
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• Always available, always contextual •
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10. Cortana Intelligence Suite
Intelligent Apps require Intelligent Solutions
Data
Sources
Apps
Sensors
and
devices
Data Action
People
Automated
Systems
Apps
Web
Mobile
Bots
Intelligence
Dashboards &
Visualizations
Information
Management
Big Data Stores Machine Learning
and Analytics
CortanaEvent Hub
HDInsight
(Hadoop and
Spark)
Stream Analytics
Intelligence
Bot
Framework
SQL Data
WarehouseData Catalog
Data Lake
Analytics
Data Factory
Machine
Learning
Data Lake Store
Blob Store
Cognitive
Services
Power BI

11. Microsoft
Cognitive
Services
Give your apps
a human side
From faces to feelings, allow your
apps to understand images and video
Hear and speak to your users by filtering noise,
identifying speakers, and understanding intent
Process text and learn how to
recognize what users want
Tap into rich knowledge amassed from
the web, academia, or your own data
Access billions of web pages, images, videos,
and news with the power of Bing APIs

12. microsoft.com/cognitive

15. http://www.microsoft.com/cognitive

16. Vision APIs
Analyze an Image
OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
Get Thumbnails

17. Analyze Image Service

18. Start coding

19. OCR Service

20. OCR – Example
JSON:
{
"language": "en",
"orientation": "Up",
"regions": [
{
"boundingBox": "41,77,918,440",
"lines": [
{
"boundingBox": "41,77,723,89",
"words": [
{
"boundingBox": "41,102,225,64",
"text": "LIFE"
},
{
"boundingBox": "356,89,94,62",
"text": "IS"
},
{
"boundingBox": "539,77,225,64",
"text": "LIKE"
}
. . .
TEXT:
LIFE IS LIKE
RIDING A BICYCLE
TO KEEP YOUR BALANCE
YOU MUST KEEP MOVING

21. Start coding

22. Face APIs
Detection
Verification
Grouping
Identification

23. Face API – Detection
Detection Result:
JSON:
[
{
"faceRectangle": {
"width": 109,
"height": 109,
"left": 62,
"top": 62
},
"attributes": {
"age": 31,
"gender": "male",
"headPose": {
"roll": "2.9",
"yaw": "-1.3",
"pitch": "0.0"
}
"faceLandmarks": {
"pupilLeft": {
"x": "93.6",
"y": "88.2"
},
"pupilRight": {
"x": "138.4",
"y": "91.7"
},
...

24. Verification Result:
JSON:
[
{
"isIdentical":false,
"confidence":0.01
}
]
Face API – Verification

25. Face API – Grouping

26. Start coding

27. Bot Connector Service
Connect your bot(s) seamlessly to
text/sms, Office 365 mail, Skype,
Slack, Twitter and more
A service to register your bot,
configure channels and publish
to the Bot Directory
Bot Builder SDK
Everything you need to build
great dialogs within your Node.js
or C# bot
An open source SDK hosted
on GitHub
Bot Directory
Discover, try, and add bots to
conversation experiences
A public directory of bots
registered and approved with Bot
Framework
www.botframework.com

29. http://cortanaintelligence.com
http://gallery.cortanaintelligence.com
http://www.microsoft.com/cognitive

30. Sage Franch
Tech Evangelist
@theTrendyTechie | sage.franch@microsoft.com