Azure AI is Microsoft's solution for many of the most popular and widely-used AI and machine learning needs today. It incorporates a wide range of different tools that offer different AI-related services, such as text analytics, speech and image recognition, interacting with humans, making intelligent predictions, and more. Artificial intelligence has been applied to nearly every existing industry today, and companies use Azure AI in particular because of the breadth of its offerings and its easy integration with existing Azure tools, such as Azure function apps and web services.
The AI Services API is a comprehensive solution offering different services in one consolidated API, including speech and text analysis. In this lab, you will practice making requests to the Text Analytics API within the Azure AI Services API, using an Azure function app to make the API requests.
Upon completion of this lab, you will be able to:
This lab is intended for:
You should be familiar with:
April 7th, 2025 - Resolved a formatting issue within a lab step's code snippet and added screenshots to reflect the latest UI
November 3rd, 2024 - Resolved an issue that caused the lab to fail to set up in some cases
July 8th, 2024 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI
November 22nd, 2023 - Fixed function output 204 issue
September 28th, 2023 - Updated instructions to reflect change in Azure AI Services
September 12th, 2023 - Resolved function output issue
July 20th, 2023 - Resolved deployment issue
May 26th, 2023 - Resolved an issue that caused the lab to fail periodically
March 10th, 2022 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI
July 29th, 2020 - Updated the content to match the latest Azure Portal experience