Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Textract is a powerful, fully managed, and highly featured machine learning based document scanning service. Amazon Textract can extract things like text and handwriting, but can also extract, identify, and understand data from scanned documents like tables, forms and key-value pairs. Using Amazon Textract’s pretrained features, Amazon Textract can be used to quickly get your automated document processes up and running. If the pretrained features do not meet your document processing requirements, Amazon Textract allows for customization of the provided pretrained features to help you accomplish your document scanning needs.

Use Amazon Transcribe to automatically convert speech to text. With Amazon Transcribe, generate meeting notes and subtitles to give workplace meetings more meaning and be more inclusive. In addition, Amazon Transcribe can be used to monitor conversations for inappropriate content and to also generate clinical documentation.

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The Solution

In this tutorial, we will provide a simple example where we convert a short audio clip of speech to text using Amazon Transcribe with .NET.

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Artificial intelligence is everywhere, there’s machine learning, supervised and unsupervised, there’s large language models and then there’s data science, etc, etc… If you are a dev, where do you even start? Fortunately, AWS has simplified artificial intelligence processes into easily consumable services. And, in this multipart series, we’ll take you through some introductory tutorials to start you on the path of learning how to use Amazon artificial intelligence services.

Amazon Polly uses deep learning to synthesize human speech from text. With Amazon Polly you can convert meeting notes, research papers and magazine and newspaper articles to a digital audio format. And, with support for various voices and dozens of languages, Amazon Polly can bring your textual content to life in minutes.

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The Solution

In this tutorial, we’ll bring you through a simple example where we show you how to synthesize speech from text and store the synthesized speech in a digital audio format like MP3.

Amazon Rekognition is a highly featured, visual analysis tool that relies on pre-trained machine learning models. Amazon Rekognition enables you to analyze images as well as video without being a machine learning expert. Amazon Rekognition can flag inappropriate content, differentiate fake and real faces, can identify celebrities and can extract text. When analyzing video, Amazon Rekognition can also detect and analyze motion.

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The Solution

In this tutorial, we’ll bring you through a simple app that analyzes a picture and counts the number of faces within it.

Amazon Translate is an AWS machine learning service that is based upon deep learning and let’s you translate textual data from one language, to another. Amazon Translate has support for 75 different languages and can be used for translating meeting notes, translating telephone transcripts, or providing website search constructs in various languages.

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The Solution

In this tutorial, we’ll bring you through a simple example where we show you how to translate textual data from English to Spanish.