Microsoft Unveils New Cloud Services for AI and Industrial Sensors
The world's largest software maker is targeting Oracle, Amazon with new database efforts
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Microsoft Corp. is showing off new cloud services for AI and industrial sensors as well as database software tools designed to give Oracle Corp. a headache.
One artificial intelligence service uses the company’s ability to automatically translate languages to add subtitles to PowerPoint presentations, while another lets customers index video to identify a particular speaker by sight or tag when a word or phrase is uttered, company executives said. The indexer can be used both to find specific things in hours of footage and to better match ads to clips. Microsoft's collection of AI services for customers now numbers 29.