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Welcome to the Azure Cognitive Services - Speech AMA!
Welcome to the Azure Cognitive Services - Speech Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA)! This live hour gives you the opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback. Please introduce yourself by replying to this thread. Post your questions in a new thread within the Azure AI AMA space, by clicking on, "Start a New Conversation" at the top of the page.2/10/21 - Announcing an Azure Cognitive Services – Speech AMA!
We are very excited to announce an Azure Cognitive Services – Speech AMA! We'll be answering your questions on how to add capabilities like Text-to-Speech and Custom Neural Voice with Azure Speech service. The AMA will take place on Wednesday, February 10, 2021 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. PT in the Azure AI AMA space. Add the event to your calendar and view in your time zone here. An AMA is a live online event similar to a “YamJam” on Yammer or an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit. This AMA gives you the opportunity to connect with Microsoft product experts who will be on hand to answer your questions and listen to feedback. Please note, if you are unable to participate on the day of the event, we will open up the space for new questions 24 hours before the event, so feel free to post your questions beforehand if it fits your schedule or time zone better. BEFORE THE EVENT - check out these resources: Learn more about text to speech capability: Build a natural custom voice for your brand (microsoft.com) Check out Friday's AI show featuring Edward Un and Sarah Bird!
Using AI to convert unstructured information to structured information
We have a use case to extract the information from various types of documents like Excel, PDF, and Word and convert it into structured information. The data exists in different formats. We started building this use case with AI Builder, and we hit the roadblock and are now exploring ways using the Co-pilot studio. It would be great if someone could point us in the right direction. What should be the right technology stack that we should consider for this use case? Thank you for the pointer.
Aidemos Microsoft site doesn't work https://aidemos.microsoft.com/
Hello MS team, I am learning AI-900 in Coursera. The course guides me to try AI demos on https://aidemos.microsoft.com/. But it seems broken for weeks. According to the error message, it could be the issue of the backend. Could the MS team fix it, please? Best Regards, DaleWhen to use and how to get querying proficiency
Alright, I will try to be short here but anyone let me know if more info is needed. We had this new project started 3 months ago, that was increasing the amount of data it was going inside our Elastic Search today, I suggested migrating to azure search for this new phase of the project, and so I started migrating. Q1. Any recommended way for fast ingesting? Using azure durable functions to ingest about 600k documents was taking an absurd amount of time, like over 4 hours; using the dotnet sdk, with batching by 100 documents. Documents are not large, but a bit complex. Q2. Querying, anything out of the basics its really hard to find information for specially when using the dotnet sdk 11. Example, I have a sort that needs to sort results by one of the fields value inside an object inside the document,(2nd level) where fieldX= A, should come first and fieldX=B should come second and so on... which seemed like a good case for semantic scoring... but again, couldn't find any example on how to do that... (suggestion, a querying playground with the hotel data set would be very helpful on that) Q3 - Maybe a bug, any way to manipulate the field conversion during casting of result set? Background info->searchClient.SearchAsync<DocumentsResult>(query, options ); one of the fields inside DocumentResult is a string which the value can contain "8" or "A8", I can see the data when querying the index on the portal its there, but when calling the value for this field is always null... Sorry for the long post.... anyway, long story short migrated everything to managed sql server, where querying is extremely easy last week(due to time crunch) but since the AMA was coming up figured I could try getting some answers for this for next time or phase of the project. Thanks PedroWelcome to the Translator within Azure Cognitive Services AMA!
Welcome to the Translator within Azure Cognitive Services Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA)! This live hour gives you the opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback. Please introduce yourself by replying to this thread. Post your questions in a new thread within the Azure AI AMA space, by clicking on, "Start a New Conversation" at the top of the page.
Welcome to the 6/3 Azure Cognitive Search AMA!
Welcome to the Azure Cognitive Search Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA)! This live hour gives you the opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback. We hope you enjoyed Microsoft Build and all the news on Azure Cognitive Search, particularly new language support in Semantic Search as well as new data source ingestion through Power Query connectors. Here's a link. Please introduce yourself by replying to this thread. Post your questions in a new thread within the Azure AI AMA space, by clicking on, "Start a New Conversation" at the top of the page.
Principle Does not have Access to API/Operation
Hi all, I am trying to connect Azure OpenAI service to Azure AI Search service to Azure Gen 2 Data lake. In the Azure AI Foundry studio Chat Playground, I am able to add my data source, which is a .csv file in the data lake that has been indexed successfully. I use "System Assigned Managed Identity". The following RBAC has been applied: AI Search service has Cognitive Services OpenAI Contributor in Azure Open AI service Azure OpenAI service has Search Index Data Reader in AI Search Service Azure OpenAI service has Search Service Contributor in AI Search Service AI Search Service has Storage Blob Data Reader in Storage account (Data Lake) As mentioned when adding the data source it passes validation but when I try to ask a question, I get the error "We couldn't connect your data Principal does not have access to API/Operation"
speech recognition, speech to text, text to speech
Hello! My name is Marin Benkin and I am an owner of a little company in Bulgaria and I am interested to create neural voices in my language and to improve speech recognition. What time was to do to have a permission to create Neural voice in Bulgarian?
How to update an index for a data source in Azure AI Studio?
Hello, I have a functioning deployment and web app for a RAG application that I created in Azure AI Studio. Now I want to update the app to use additional data I have added. I figured out how to add another version of my data in Azure AI Studio, but can't figure out how to add another version of my index. It seems like versioning is supported. The https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-studio/how-to/index-add I found helps with creating data sources/indexes, but not updating. Help answering this or pointing in another direction would be great. Thanks!GenAI based Project Management
Phase 1 We wanted to develop a Gen AI solution for Project Management activities like below. Can anyone guide us or help how we can start? We are in the learning phase of Gen AI with MS learn materials & video courses. Effort estimation based on task description and technology Creating tasks/subtasks/comments in the ERP project module Assign the developer/resources based on the skill required Monitor the progress of projects & tasks Taking follow-up with the developer for particular tasks through task updates, Teams chat & Teams call. Create a project progress report and share it with the respective customer through email. Make the Teams call with the developer and discuss the progress/challenges (One to one call & group call) Attend customer meeting calls, prepare meeting notes and share them with all the participants. Make the phone call (VOIP) to employees/developers/customers/contractors for the project/task update. Attending customer calls/ Team calls to understand the requirements and create a project scope document.Search integration with ETL/DW/Synapse(DL)
We're looking at implementing an enterprise search, which includes a revamp of our EDP (enterprise data platform). Creating an etl which will ingest data from various sources via ADF into a DL to be used by DW/Synapse as a source of truth. What are the best ways to connect the cognitive search to that gold data (may contain un-, semi-, fully-structured data)?
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