Azure AI is Microsoft's solution for many of the most popular and widely-used AI and machine learning needs today. It incorporates a wide range of different tools that offer different AI-related services, such as text analytics, speech and image recognition, interacting with humans, making intelligent predictions and more. Artificial intelligence has been applied to nearly every existing industry today, and companies use Azure AI in particular because of the breadth of its offerings and its easy integration with existing Azure tools, such as Azure function apps and web services.
The Cognitive Services API is a comprehensive solution offering a number of different services in one consolidated API, including speech and text analysis. In this lab, you will practice making requests to the Text Analytics API within the Azure Cognitive Services API, using an Azure function app to make the API requests.
Upon completion of this lab you will be able to:
This lab is intended for:
You should be familiar with:
May 26th, 2023 - Resolved an issue that caused the lab to fail periodically
March 10th, 2022 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI
July 29th, 2020 - Updated the content to match the latest Azure Portal experience
Matt has worked for multiple Fortune 500 companies as a DevOps Engineer and Solutions Architect. He is an AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, and an AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate. He enjoys reading and learning new technologies.