Understand natural language processing

Natural language processing (NLP) is the area of AI that deals with creating software that understands written and spoken language.

NLP enables you to create software that can:

• Analyze and interpret text in documents, email messages, and other sources.
• Interpret spoken language, and synthesize speech responses.
• Automatically translate spoken or written phrases between languages.
• Interpret commands and determine appropriate actions.

For example, Starship Commander is a virtual reality (VR) game from Human Interact that takes place in a science fiction world. The game uses natural language processing to enable players to control the narrative and interact with in-game characters and starship systems.

Natural language processing in Microsoft Azure

In Microsoft Azure, you can use the following cognitive services to build natural language processing solutions:

Service                        Capabilities

Language                 Use this service to access features for understanding and analyzing text,                                                    training language models that can understand spoken or text-based                                                            commands, and building intelligent applications

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Translator                  Use this service to translate text between more than 60 languages.

Speech                           Use this service to recognize and synthesize speech, and to translate spoken                                              languages.

Azure Bot                  This service provides a platform for conversational AI, the capability of a                                                  software "agent" to participate in a conversation. Developers can use the Bot                                            Framework to create a bot and manage it with Azure Bot Service -                                                            integrating back-end services like Language, and connecting to channels for                                              web chat, email, Microsoft Teams, and others.

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