Box Introduces Box Skills and Box Skills Kit Machine Learning Tools

Box, a cloud content management platform provider, has introduced Box Skills, a framework that makes it possible to take applications of machine learning such as computer vision, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis and apply them to content stored within the Box platform. Box also introduced the Box Skills Kit which is an SDK that developers can use to build custom skills. The Box Skills and Skills Kit will be available in beta in early 2018. The Audio Intelligence skill creates and indexes a text transcript from audio files, and the transcript can be searched and manipulated in a variety of ways. The Video Intelligence skill analyzes video and provides transcription, topic detection, and people detection capabilities.