Azure Cognitive Services and OpenAI are a set of pre-built AI solution APIs that can be leveraged from existing applications, allowing customers to take advantage of Microsoft's award-winning Vision, Speech, Text, Decision, and GPT-4 AI (artificial intelligence) capabilities.

With A Practical Guide to Azure Cognitive Services, you'll work with manufacturing industry-specific examples of implementations to head-start your production journey. You'll begin with an overview of categorization of Azure Cognitive Services and the benefits of embracing AI solutions for practical business applications. Next, you'll explore the benefits of using Azure Cognitive Services to optimize efficiency and improve predictive capabilities. Later, you'll learn to leverage Vision capabilities for quality control, Forms Recognizer to streamline supply chain nuances, language understanding for improving customer service, and Cognitive Search for a next-generation knowledge mining solutions, and more.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to implement various Cognitive Services solutions that will help you enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve customer experience at your organization. You'll also be well-equipped to automate mundane tasks by reaping the full potential of OpenAI.