New Amazon AI Services Can Detect Images and Turn Text to Speech

Tightening up on the artificial intelligence race against Microsoft and Google, Amazon revealed new AI services, at the AWS re:Invent 2016 conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. The services will help customers develop applications hosted on AWS that recognize images, add text-to-speech and implement technology from Amazon's Alexa's. Amazon Rekognition is a service that recognizes images. With Rekognition, developers can create applications that detect objects, scenes, and faces in images. It can also be used to search and compare faces.