Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution

Introduction to AI in Azure

• Introduction to artificial intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence in Azure

Developing AI apps with Cognitive Services

• First steps with Cognitive Services
• Using Cognitive Services for Enterprise Applications
  

Getting started with natural language processing

• Analysing text
• Translating Text
  

Building language-enabled applications

• Speech recognition and synthesis
• Language Translation
  

Building Language Understanding Solutions

• Creating a Language Understanding App
• Publish and use a Language Understanding app
  
• Using Language Understanding with Speech
  

Creating a QnA Solution

• Creating a QnA Knowledge Base
• Publish and use a QnA knowledge base
  

Conversational AI and Azure Bot Service

• Bot basics
• Implementing a conversation bot
  

Getting started with machine vision

• Analysing images
• Analysing videos
  

Developing custom vision solutions

• Image classification
• Object recognition
  

Recognising, analysing and recognising faces

• Recognising faces with the machine vision service
• Using the Face Recognition Service
  

Reading text in images and documents

• Reading text with the machine vision service
• Extracting information from forms with the Form Recognition Service
  

Creating a knowledge discovery solution

• Implementing an intelligent search solution
• Developing custom skills for an enrichment pipeline
  
• Creating a knowledge store

Software developers interested in compiling, managing and deploying AI solutions using Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Cognitive Search and Microsoft Bot Framework. You will be familiar with C# or Python and have knowledge of using REST-based APIs to compile machine vision, speech analytics, knowledge discovery, intelligent search and conversational AI solutions in Azure.

Participants must meet the following prerequisites before attending this course:

• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and the ability to navigate the Azure portal.
• Knowledge of C# or Python
  
• Experience with JSON and REST programming semantics.
  

To gain C# or Python knowledge, complete the free Getting Started with C# or Getting Started with Python learning path before taking the course.

If you are new to artificial intelligence and would like an overview of AI features in Azure, you should obtain the Azure AI Fundamentals certification before undertaking this course.

This course prepares students for the AI-102: Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution exam.