Computer Vision vs. Video Indexer vs. Face API

Vision APIs

Computer Vision – Image Classification, OCR and Handwriting

Video Indexer  – Face Detection in VIDEOS (not images), Object and Activity Detection

Custom Vision – Customizable Image recognition

Face API – Face Detection in Images, Person Identification , Emotion Recog in images, Similar Face Recognition

Content Moderator – Offensive Content Moderation for Images and Videos

Speech APIs

Speech Services
Speech Service adds speech-enabled features to applications.

Speaker Recognition API (Preview)
The Speaker Recognition API provides algorithms for speaker identification and verification.

Bing Speech (Retiring)
The Bing Speech API provides you with an easy way to create speech-enabled features in your applications.

Translator Speech (Retiring)
Translator Speech is a machine translation service.

 

Language APIs

Language Understanding LUIS
Language Understanding service (LUIS) allows your application to understand what a person wants in their own words.

QnA Maker
QnA Maker allows you to build a question and answer service from your semi-structured content.

Text Analytics
Text Analytics provides natural language processing over raw text for sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction and language detection.  Parsing emails for example

Translator Text
Translator text provides for machine-based text translation in near real-time.

Video Indexer
Video Indexer enables you to extract insights from your video.

Decision APIs

Anomaly Detector(Preview)
Anomaly Detector allows you to monitor and detect abnormalities in your time series data.

Content Moderator
Content Moderator provides monitoring for possible offensive, undesirable, and risky content.

Personalizer (Preview)
Personalizer allows you to choose the best experience to show to your users, learning from their real-time behavior.

 

Search APIs

Bing News Search
Bing News Search returns a list of news articles determined to be relevant to the user’s query.

Bing Video Search
Bing Video Search returns a list of videos determined to be relevant to the user’s query.

Bing Web Search
Bing Web Search returns a list of search results determined to be relevant to the user’s query.

Bing Autosuggest
Bing Autosuggest allows you to send a partial search query term to Bing and get back a list of suggested queries.

Bing Custom Search
Bing Custom Search allows you to create tailored search experiences for topics that you care about.

Bing Entity Search
Bing Entity Search returns information about entities that Bing determines are relevant to a user’s query.

Bing Image Search
Bing Image Search returns a display of images determined to be relevant to the user’s query.

Bing Visual Search
Bing Visual Search provides returns insights about an image such as visually similar images, shopping sources for products found in the image, and related searches.

Bing Local Business Search
Bing Local Business Search API enables your applications to find contact and location information about local businesses based on search queries.

Bing Spell Check
Bing Spell Check allows you to perform contextual grammar and spell checking.