Microsoft Cognitive Services is a set of cloud-based intelligence services and APIs for building richer, smarter, and more sophisticated applications. The product of years of ongoing research from data scientists and AI experts at Microsoft, these services and APIs offer a range of capabilities to app developers, from generating captions and search metadata for photos and recognizing faces and emotions in videos to performing sentiment analysis on social media posts and translating speech in real time. Learn all about Cognitive Services and how to employ them in your apps in this comprehensive series.