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16: Cognitive Services - Speech to Text[MP4] [0:06:40] [2016/04/04]
Microsoft Cognitive Services is a set of APIs built on Machine Learning and exposed as REST Web Services. The Speech API offers a way to listen to speech and convert it into text.


15: Cognitive Services - Emotion API[MP4] [0:15:20] [2016/04/04]
Microsoft Cognitive Services is a set of APIs based on Machine Learning and exposed as REST web services. The Emotion API analyzes pictures of faces and determines the emotion shown in each face.


14: Cognitive Services - Thumbnail Generation[MP4] [0:10:10] [2016/04/04]
Cognitive Services exposes an API to intelligently generate thumbnail images while keeping the subject in frame, despite cropping.


13: Cognitive Services - Optical Character Recognition[MP4] [0:09:54] [2016/04/04]
Microsoft Cognitive Services uses Machine Learning to recognize text within pictures and exposes this functionality via a RESTful Web Service.


12: Cognitive Services - Face API[MP4] [0:14:07] [2016/04/04]
Learn how to use the Microsoft Cognitive Services Face API to recognize faces and the properties of faces within image. This API is based on Machine Learning.


11: Microsoft Cognitive Services Overview[MP4] [0:09:14] [2016/04/04]
Microsoft Cognitive Services (formerly Project Oxford) provides a set of APIs for analyzing images, video, speech, and language. Learn how to get started and start developing against these APIs.


10: Creating an Azure Web App[MP4] [0:11:10] [2015/10/17]
In this screencast, you will learn 3 different ways to create an Azure Web App using the Azure Management Portal.


9: Creating an Azure Virtual Machine[MP4] [0:09:05] [2015/10/16]
In this screencast, we show how to create a new Virtual Machine in the Windows Azure portal.


8: Creating an Azure Storage Account[MP4] [0:10:12] [2015/09/10]
This screencast will show you how to create a new Azure storage account and do basic management of that account, including creating new blobs, queues, and tables.


7: Azure Storage Replication[MP4] [0:06:22] [2015/09/10]
Azure storage includes built-in redundancy by default. In this screencast, I explain the Replication options that allow you to configure how many copies of your data are created, where they are…


6: Deploying an Azure Web App from Git[MP4] [0:09:54] [2015/08/16]
Learn how to deploy to an Azure web app from a local Git repository.


5: Features of Microsoft Edge[MP4] [0:08:26] [2015/08/16]
Microsoft Edge is a brand new browser shipping with Windows 10. In this video, I walk through the important new features of interest to users of Edge.


4: Azure Mobile Services, Part 4: Adding your own table to a service[MP4] [0:08:55] [2015/08/16]
In this screencast, you will learn how to create your own table linked to an Azure Mobile Service and manage the data in this table from a client Windows or Windows Phone application.


3: Azure Mobile Services, Part 3: Implementing Single Sign-On[MP4] [0:22:39] [2015/08/16]
In this screencast, you will learn how to turn on authorization in an Azure Mobile Service and allow users to log in with their Twitter account.


2: Azure Mobile Services, Part 2: Creating the Sample Table and Client[MP4] [0:22:39] [2015/08/16]
In this video, you will see how to use the portal to quickly create a table linked to an Azure Mobile Service and a Windows Universal App client that connects to that mobile service.


1: Azure Mobile Services, Part 1: Creating a Mobile Service[MP4] [0:10:19] [2015/08/16]
This video describes the basics of Azure Mobile Services and walks you through creating a new Mobile Service with a JavaScript backend.