Machine Learning
Table of Contents
Amazon Rekognition #
Finding objects, people, text, scenes in images and videos using Machine Learning. #
Facial analysis and facial search to perform user verification, people count, etc.
- Use cases:
- Labeling
- Content Moderation
- Text Detection
- Face Detection and Analysis (gender, age, range, emotions, …)
- Face Search and Verification
- Celebrity Recognition
- Pathing (e.g. sports game analysis)
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More about Rekognition: https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition |
Transcribe #
Automatically converts speech to text. Uses deep learning process called ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) to convert speech to text. #
It has a capability of removing Personally Identifiable information (PII) using Redaction.
It also supports Automatic Language Identification for multi-lingual audio.
- Use cases:
- transcribe customer service calls
- automate closed captioning and subtitling
- generate metadata for media assets to create a fully searchable archive
Polly #
Opposite of Transcribe. Turns text into speech using deep learning. #
Translate #
Amazon Translate allows localizing the content - websites and applications - for international users. It has a capability of translating large volumes of text efficiently.
Lex & Connect #
- Amazon Lex: same technology that powers Alexa
- Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) to convert speech to text
- Natural Language Understanding to recognize the intent of the text
- Helps building chatbots or call center bots
- Amazon Connect
- Receive calls, create contact flows, cloud-based virtual contact center
- Can integrate with other CRM systems or AWS
- No upfront payment, 80% cheaper than traditional contact center solutions
Comprehend #
Uses Machine Learning to find insights and relationships in the text for Natural Language Processing - NLP. #
- Language of the text
- Extracting key phrases, places, people, brands or events
- Understand how positive or negative text is
- Analyzes text using tokenization and parts of speech
- Automatically organizes a collection of text files by topic
Use cases:
- Analyze customer interactions (emails) to find what leads to a positive or negative experience
- Create and group articles by topics
SageMaker #
Fully managed service for developers / data scientists to build Machine Learning (ML) models. Model requires training.
Kendra #
Fully managed document search service powered by Machine Learning.
- Can extract answers from withing a document (text, pdf, HTML, Power Point, MS Word, FAQs, etc.).
- Can learn from user interactions or feedback to promote preferred results (Incremental Learning)
- Has an ability to manually fine-tune search results (importance of data, freshness, custom, etc.)
Personalize #
Fully managed Machine Learning service to build apps with real-time personalized recommendations.
Same tech used by amazon.com
Use Cases: retail stores, media, entertainment…
Textract #
Automatically extracts text, handwriting and data from scanned documents using AI and ML.
Can read and process any type of document (PDF, images, etc.)
Summary #
- Rekognition: face detection, labeling, celebrity recognition
- Transcribe: audio to text (e.g. subtitles)
- Polly: text to audio
- Translate: translations
- Lex: build conversational bots / chatbots
- Connect: cloud contact center
- Comprehend: natural language processing
- SageMaker: machine learning for every developer and data scientist
- Kendra: ML-powered document search engine
- Personalize: real-time personalized recommendation
- Textract: detect text and data in documents (handwriting / scanned data)
» Sources « #
- Amazon Rekognition: https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition
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