AI + Machine Learning

Neural Text to Speech is expanding language support, with 15 new natural-sounding voices that feature state-of-the-art neural speech synthesis models:

The health feature of Text Analytics uses natural language processing techniques to find and label valuable information in unstructured clinical documents such as doctor’s notes, discharge summaries, clinical documents, and…

Streamline the process for creating task-oriented voice applications with Custom Commands (now generally available).

Opinion mining is now available in preview. A feature of sentiment analysis, it provides more granular information on the opinions related to aspects of a product or service mentioned in…

Azure Text Analytics v3 with sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, language detection, and named entity recognition capabilities, as well as model version controls, is now generally available.

See the list of enhancements and new capabilities designed to make chatbot development more productive, including the GAs of Bot Framework Composer and Virtual Assistant solution accelerators, as well as…

New Cognitive Services capabilities are now available in preview.

New Cognitive Services capabilities are now generally available.

To continue providing speech recognition and translation capabilities in your current Bing Speech applications, you’ll need to migrate them to Speech Services and the Speech SDK

Cognitive Services Computer Vision Read API of is now available in v3.0 (in preview). Read features the newest models for optical character recognition (OCR), allowing you to extract text from…

Effective February 1, 2020, the meter names of Azure Search will change.

Azure Search is now integrated with the Azure Government cloud, enabling U.S. public sector customers to create sophisticated search solutions.

Effective July 1, 2019, the Azure Search Document Cracking Image Extraction Resource GUID name will change.

Effective July 1, 2019, the resource GUIDs for Azure Search Basic Unit and Standard S1, S2 and S3 Unit for the Japan East region will change.

Azure Bot Service, built on Microsoft Bot Framework, makes it easier to develop bots and intelligent agents. New enhancements include: Adaptive dialogs enable developers to create more sophisticated, dynamic conversations.

Language Understanding service makes it easier to build language models by extending roles to all entity types, dynamic lists, and providing a new analytics dashboard.

New feature enhancements to the Microsoft Bot Framework allow developers to handle complex dialogs with users while also enjoying more natural language experiences. The updates include the ability to improve…

QnA Maker now can handle multi-turn conversation and is even more simple to deploy without code

Features include:​ Open Datasets - Open Datasets are a collection of datasets from the public domain to accelerate the development of machine learning models built in Azure. Open Datasets integrates…

Azure Search now supports complex searches for raw datasets that don’t break down neatly.

Cognitive Search is an enrichment pipeline that transforms raw, unstructured content into rich searchable information in an Azure Search index.

Cognitive search capability, the content-understanding feature within Azure Search, now offers a single mechanism to apply a series of pre-built and custom AI models to data. In addition, a new…

The new L-series tiers offer significantly more storage at a reduced cost per terabyte compared to the standard tiers. This is ideal for internal applications searching over large file repositories,…

Azure Stream Analytics users can now partition output to Azure Blob storage based on custom date and time formats.

Starting December 21, 2018, you’ll be able to associate your Cognitive Services subscription with an Azure Search skillset. The skillset execution will be charged as part of the Cognitive Services…

The virtual assistant solution accelerator simplifies creation of your own assistant, enabling you to get started in minutes.

On December 4, 2018, the Azure Bot Service will require all connections to be secured using transport layer security (TLS) 1.2.

Support for synonyms in Azure Search, soon to be in preview, is one of our most requested features on UserVoice. Synonyms functionality will allows for Azure Search to not only return…

We're pleased to announce updates to the Bot Framework that will provide developers with more tools and streamlined integration to other services for developing bots.

Azure Search has released new features in API version 2016-09-01 and a new .NET SDK.

Azure Search has released a new preview version of the .NET SDK and supports Blob and Table storage indexers in the Azure portal.

The updated Power BI content pack for Azure Search contains insightful data about your Azure Search service and useful visualizations.

Azure Search helps developers build rich, first-class search experiences into their applications.

The Azure Search Blob indexer can now parse JSON documents while preserving document structure.

Azure Search supports Azure tables as a data source.

The Basic tier of Azure Search offers a low-cost and production-ready search service for your web and mobile applications.

Lucene query syntax is now available as part of the Azure Search REST API.

The Azure Search .NET SDK is now generally available.

Version 1.0.1-preview of the Azure Search .NET SDK is now available.

Take control over the process of breaking your documents into searchable terms.

Enable traffic analytics in Azure Search to gain visibility into your search service and learn about your users.

Write more powerful queries in Azure Search with the full Lucene query language.

Query your Azure Search indexes and see search results directly from the Azure portal.

Azure Search updates include an API prototype, language support, and new regions.

We’ve announced the general availability of 3 new regions for Azure Search—Brazil South, Australia East, and Japan West—bringing the global availability of Azure Search to a total of 11 regions.

Azure Search is a search-as-a-service solution that helps developers build sophisticated search experiences into web and mobile applications.

Incorporate search capabilities into applications without having to worry about the complexities of full-text search