My first Microsoft Certification in 21 years

IT Certifications are something I have no shortage of. When I entered the IT industry as a graduate in the early 1990’s obtaining certifications was the primary way of showing capability and competency in the industry. It was the early days of the internet and most IT related technical resources were distributed on compact discs with patches made available via bulletin boards and Compuserve.… keep reading

Using Azure Cognitive Services to Empower the IT Service Desk

Tonight (29 August 2018) I presented the following presentation on using Azure Cognitive Services to Empower the IT Service/build Business Applications to the Sydney Azure User Group.

I walked through how to leverage the following Azure Cognitive API Services;

  • Speech to Text
  • Text to Speech
  • Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)
  • Text Language Translation

For each I show a working example and demo.… keep reading