Amazon com : Extends Web-Based Artificial Intelligence 4-Traders

Inc. debuted new services intended to help coders build web-based applications that tap into the retail giant's artificial-intelligence capabilities. The company's cloud-computing unit, Amazon Web Services, unveiled the offerings at its annual conference here. Amazon Rekognition will let software developers write programs that detect the number of people in a photo, spot their gender and identify objects. It can also match faces, which could be useful in comparing two images to confirm, for example, a person's identity. The company also launched Amazon Polly, which converts text to speech.