Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit: Microsoft’s open source tool that recognizes words like humans

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit can be used as a library in C++ and Python APIs, and it also has support for Nvidia’s Pascal architecture graphics. It is interesting to know that Microsoft flaunts the power of its speech recognition system, which can be as effective as humans, because this system has a word error rate (WER) of 5.9%, which is a very small amount.

The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, formerly known as the CNTK toolkit, was developed by Microsoft researchers for personal use, as they developed this system for speech and image recognition, but the benefits of this tool have led it to expand its work beyond image recognition. and draw speech.

This recognition system through neural networks helps researchers to create their #machine learning system so that it is responsive to work on computers with ordinary processors and graphics. In addition, datasets of different sizes can be processed using the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit on a single computer or a group of computers in a data center (this tool also improves performance based on the Pascal architecture available on Nvidia DGX-1 graphics cards). .

In addition, the updated tool can be used as a library in C++ and Python APIs, and also equips machine learning systems with reinforcement learning research that prepares them to perform a specific task through trial and error. And as a result, it allows these agents with artificial intelligence to make complex decisions.

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit: Microsoft's open source tool that recognizes words like humans

For example, a German company named Liebherr has tried to use Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit by installing cameras in its refrigerators; In fact, these cameras can find the food in the refrigerator and automatically make a list of them and then notify the meal plan and shopping plan according to the food observations.

As another example, the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit was used by the Bing team to recognize text in web queries. For example, when a user types “how to make an apple pie?”, the Bing search engine should be able to recognize that the search was for “recipe”, even though the phrase “recipe” is not in the query!

This Microsoft open source tool aims to compete with other existing products such as Google’s TendorFlow. To learn more about this tool, you can refer to the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit repository on GitHub.

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