You have just started on the road to learning about Microsoft Cognitive Services. This chapter will serve as a gentle introduction to the services. The end goal is to understand a bit more about what these cognitive APIs can do for you. By the end of this chapter, we will have created an easy-to-use project template. You will have learned how to detect faces in images and have the number of faces spoken back to you.
Throughout this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Learning about some applications already using Microsoft Cognitive Services
- Creating a template project
- Detecting faces in images using Face API
- Discovering what Microsoft Cognitive Services can offer
- Doing text-to-speech conversion using Bing Speech API
