Azure Cloud Workshop

When and Where

May 14th
Nashville, TN

Microsoft Office
8 City Boulevard
Suite 403
Nashville, TN
37209

    

May 15th
Memphis, TN

Microsoft Office
6465 N. Quail Hollow Road
Suite 200
Memphis, TN
38120

What it is

Learn how to integrate Azure’s customizable speech recognition, text analytics, and intent analysis APIs into an Azure-hosted app.

You’ll start by learning about the Custom Speech Service, a speech recognition API that can be trained to filter out background noise and recognize obscure words and phrases. After training the speech recognition model, you’ll integrate it into an Azure-hosted web app to recognize real-time speech. Finally, you’ll integrate and train the Language Understanding and Intelligence Service (LUIS) to analyze the intent of speech phrases you generate. With the intent identified, your app will be able to respond in real time.

 

Agenda

9:00am

Welcome, Introduction, Azure Overview
Highlight of the apps you’ll be building. 

9:15am

Introduction to the Azure Portal
Get started with Azure and learn how to navigate through the Azure portal! During this session, you'll activate a free Azure subscription, learn about Resource Groups, navigate through the Azure portal, and see how easy it is to provision a web app.

9:45am

Break

10:00am

Introduction to the Custom Speech Service
In this session, you'll learn about the Custom Speech Service, an AI platform built for speech recognition. You’ll use custom language and acoustic models to tailor the speech service to overcome speech recognition barriers, such as speaking style, vocabulary, and background noise. You’ll finish by deploying your custom models to an API endpoint that can be consumed publicly.

11:30am

Lunch 
To be provided.

12:00pm

Building and Deploying a Web App to the Cloud using PaaS
What the heck is PaaS? In this session, you'll learn about Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings while creating a simple web app that allows you to use an audio file or your microphone to translate speech to text. You'll finish by provisioning and deploying to Azure services to host your app.

1:00pm

Break

1:15pm

Using Language Understanding (LUIS) to Identify Intent
After deploying your app to Azure, you’ll take the results of speech recognition and send them to Azure’s Language Understanding (LUIS) service to identify the intent of the recognized speech. You’ll build various intent models within LUIS, deploy the models, and integrate the deployed LUIS API into your web app. When you’re finished, you’ll be able to instruct your app to perform various activities by speaking to it in real-time. 

3:00pm

Thank you and Close Out
 


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