Understand capabilities of Azure AI Services
Azure AI Services are cloud-based services that encapsulate AI capabilities. Rather than a single product, you should think of Azure AI Services as a set of individual services that you can use as building blocks to compose sophisticated, intelligent applications.
Azure AI services offer a wide range of prebuilt AI capabilities across multiple categories, with examples shown in the following table.
| Natural language processing | Knowledge mining and document intelligence | Computer vision | Decision support | Generative AI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text analysis | AI Search | Image analysis | Content safety | Azure OpenAI Service |
| Question answering | Document Intelligence | Video analysis | Content moderation | DALL-E image generation |
| Language understanding | Custom Document Intelligence | Image classification | ||
| Translation | Custom skills | Object detection | ||
| Named entity recognition | Facial analysis | |||
| Custom text classification | Optical character recognition | |||
| Speech | Azure AI Video Indexer | |||
| Speech Translation |
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For more information about Azure AI Services, see the Azure AI Services web page.