Microsoft to make more Cognitive Services tools available to developers ZDNet

Microsoft is readying three of its 25 Cognitive Services tools for wider release to developers. Microsoft's Cognitive Services application programming interfaces (APIs) give developers a way to add features like speech recognition, language understanding, sentiment detection and more to their applications. Cognitive Services and bots are both part of Microsoft's overall artificial intelligence and more specific "conversation as a platform" strategies. Microsoft's Cognitive Services APIs are meant to work well with the Microsoft Bot Framework and be useful in bot scenarios. Like Microsoft's Cognitive Services, bots can be speech, language, and vision-based.