Get introduced to the world of artificial intelligence with this accessible and practical guide. Build applications that make intelligent use of language and user interaction to better compete in today’s marketplace. Discover how your application can deeply understand and interpret content on the web or a user’s machine, intelligently react to direct user interaction through speech or text, or make smart recommendations on products or services that are tailored to each individual user. With Microsoft Cognitive Services, you can do all this and more utilizing a set of easy-to-use APIs that can be consumed on the desktop, web, or mobile devices. Developers normally think of AI implementation as a tough task involving writing complex algorithms. This book aims to remove the anxiety by creating a cognitive application with a few lines of code. There is a wide range of Cognitive Services APIs available. This book focuses on some of the most useful and powerful ways that your application can make intelligent use of language. Artificial Intelligence for .NET: Speech, Language, and Search will show you how you can start building amazing capabilities into your applications today. What You'll LearnUnderstand the underpinnings of artificial intelligence through practical examples and scenariosGet started building an AI-based application in Visual StudioBuild a text-based conversational interface for direct user interactionUse the Cognitive Services Speech API to recognize and interpret speechLook at different models of language, including natural language processing, and how to apply them in your Visual Studio applicationReuse Bing search capabilities to better understand a user’s intentionWork with recommendation engines and integrate them into your appsWho This Book Is ForDevelopers working on a range of platforms, from .NET and Windows to mobile devices. Examples are given in C#. No prior experience with AI techniques or theory is required.