Microsoft announced a number of features and products for AI and the intelligent edge today at its Build 2018 conference keynote, such as Project Kinect for Azure, and the Speech Devices SDK.

Microsoft disclosed this move last week in a rather understated way at its Build 2018 conference. (This Day 3 Build session on the "Cognitive Services Speech SDK" covers some of the details ...

Azure Speech Services are pushing the boundaries of what AI voices can sound like in apps and games, with some interesting possibilities for future Xbox and PC games.

Today, it also took the wraps off Azure Kinect Developer Kit, an all-in-one perception system for computer vision and speech solutions that appears to be a more polished version of Project Kinect ...

Project Kinect for Azure builds on not only the original Kinect sensor bar – now a full eight years old – but Microsoft's more recent hardware like HoloLens.

Users can access it by creating an Azure account and subscribing to the Speech service. Then, users can utilise the Speech SDK or go to the Speech Studio portal to choose from a library of prebuilt ...

Also, if you haven't already, be sure to check out my other article on setting up your Azure Cognitive Services account with PowerShell. I'll be assuming that you've already authenticated to Azure in ...