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Get introduced to the world of artificial intelligence with this accessible and practical guide. Build applications that make intelligent use of language and user interaction to better compete in today´s marketplace. Discover how your application can deeply understand and interpret content on the web or a user´s machine, intelligently react to direct user interaction through speech or text, or make smart recommendations on products or services that are tailored to each individual user.

With Microsoft Cognitive Services, you can do all this and more utilizing a set of easy-to-use APIs that can be consumed on the desktop, web, or mobile devices. Developers normally think of AI implementation as a tough task involving writing complex algorithms. This book aims to remove the anxiety by creating a cognitive application with a few lines of code. There is a wide range of Cognitive Services APIs available. This book focuses on some of the most useful and powerful ways that your application can make intelligent use of language.

Artificial Intelligence for .NET: Speech, Language, and Search will show you how you can start building amazing capabilities into your applications today.
What You´ll Learn

Understand the underpinnings of artificial intelligence through practical examples and scenarios
Get started building an AI-based application in Visual Studio
Build a text-based conversational interface for direct user interaction
Use the Cognitive Services Speech API to recognize and interpret speech
Look at different models of language, including natural language processing, and how to apply them in your Visual Studio application
Reuse Bing search capabilities to better understand a user´s intention

Work with recommendation engines and integrate them into your apps
Who This Book Is For

Developers working on a range of platforms, from .NET and Windows to mobile devices. Examples are given in C sharp. No prior experience with AI techniques or theory is required.
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Chapter 1: Getting Started with AI Basics

Chapter 2: Creating an AI-Based Application in Visual Studio

Chapter 3: Building a Conversational User Interface with Microsoft Technologies

Chapter 4: Using Natural Language Understanding

Chapter 5: Exploring a Cognitive Language Model

Chapter 6: Consuming and Applying LUIS

Chapter 7: Interacting with Speech API

Chapter 8: Enhancing Search Capabilities with AI

Chapter 9: Working with Recommendations
Chapter 10: Future of AI

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Nishith Pathak is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), architect, speaker, AI thinker, innovator, and strategist. He is a prolific writer and contributing author and has written many books, articles, reviews, and columns for multiple electronic and print publications. Having more than 20 years of experience in IT, Nishith´s expertise lies in innovation, research, architecting, designing, and developing applications for Fortune 100 companies using next-generation tools and technologies. As an early adopter of Microsoft technology, he has kept pace in the certification challenges and succeeded in getting several of his certifications in beta stage.

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