Do you envision what’s possible in the future and but more importantly build those skills and ideas to make that future a reality? This is your time. Come and build apps that augment human abilities and experiences.

Our challenge:

Build an intelligent app using Microsoft AI Cognitive Services, and submit your ideas and projects to win prizes. Watch this space for more on spot quizzes and prizes to be won along the way. Use any language, framework, or platform.

Unleash the power of Microsoft AI’s Cognitive Services to build an app that can see, hear, speak, understand, and interpret your user's needs with the following:

• Vision API: Image-processing algorithms that smartly identify, caption, index, and moderate your pictures and videos.

• Speech API: Converts spoken audio into text, use voice for verification, or add speech recognition to your app.

• Language API: Allows your apps to process natural language with pre-built scripts, evaluate sentiment and learn how to recognize what users want.

Some development ideas:

• Want to create a social impact? Translate sign language into an audible experience.
• Want to improve personal productivity? Identify the user's voice and perform some action like an open door, switch on light etc.
• Want to improve customer satisfaction? Extract speech from a conversation (audio file) and get the sentiment of the call. You may use voice to text and text analytics APIs here.
• Think smart traffic police. Identify people are wearing a helmet or not while driving a bike or scooter. Use computer vision / object detection APIs.
• Faster insurance claims? Detect damage on the vehicle to identify the cost of repair.
• Health and safety compliance could use the identification of helmets, goggles etc. on people in the vicinity.
• Simple apps for kids? Build a mobile app for kids to Identify the type of flower or animal.
• Assist parenting with AI? Maybe computer-assisted content moderation for videos or text. Explore the content moderator API.

Who can participate?

Professional developers working in South East Asia, South Korea, and New Zealand