All Things Microsoft AI

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SQLServerCentral.com is a well known web site for knowledge sharing on all things SQL Server related, as well as other DB technologies.  It’s a community driven web site that publishes a daily newsletter with articles from their contributors, as well as contributors on other web sites.  Since data is the basis for machine learning and AI, the newsletter also started to cover various AI related topics.  Listed below are a few articles from July 31 st newsletter.   AI/Machine Learning/Cognitive Services   ML{.NET} Introduction Machine Learning (ML) has come from a buzzword that is nice to have in your application to a must-have feature that works and adds value. Data scientists develop ML models in various ML Frameworks like TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, Azure ML, etc. Before ML.NET became available to all developers, adding the ML functionality to .NET applications required knowledge i...

“Custom Neural Voices” is a part of Microsoft’s Cognitive Services suite of technologies.  It allows users to develop highly realistic, humanlike voices by using Microsoft's groundbreaking neural text-to-speech technology. A user will simply record audio samples and then upload training data. Once the voice is created, it can be used in applications for Text-to-Speech or Voice Assistant.   In addition, once the voice is created, it can be used to speak fluently in 13 other languages: German (Germany) English (Australia) English (Canada) English (Canada) Spanish (Spain) Spanish (Mexico) French (Canada) French (France) Italian (Italy) Japanese (Japan) Korean (Korea) Portuguese (Brazil) Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified)   This will provide developers the ability to give their application a voice and persona that can be applied to 13 different languages/dialects.  Global companies such as  BBC, Swisscom,  AT&T and Duolingo hav...

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