Machine Learning
Amazon Rekognition
- Cloud-based SaaS for finding objects, people, text, scenes in images and videos leveraging machine learning
- Use cases:
- Labeling
- Content moderation
- Text detection
- Face detection and analysis
- Face search and verification
- Celebrity recognition
- Pathing (ex. sports analysis)
Amazon Transcribe
- An automatic speech recognition (ASR) service for converting speech to text
- ASR is a deep learning process to convert speech to text quickly and accurately
- Personally Identifiable Information is automatically removed using Redaction
- 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
Amazon Polly
- A service to turn text into lifelike speech leveraging deep learning
- Create applications that talk (speech-enabled applications)
Amazon Translate
- A neural machine translation service using deep learning to deliver accurate and natural language translations
- Allows you to localise content for international users on websites and applications
- Translate large volumes of text efficiently
Amazon Lex & Connect
- Amazon Lex: Fully managed AI service for building conversational interfaces into applications
- Uses ASR to convert speech to text
- Natural language understanding to recognise the intent of text and callers
- Use cases: Build chatbots, call centre bots
- Amazon Connect: A cloud-based virtual contact centre service for receiving calls and creating contact flows
- Can integrate with other CRM systems or AWS
- No upfront payments, 80% cheaper than traditional contact centre solutions
Amazon Comprehend
- A fully managed service for natural language processing (NLP)
- Uses ML to find insights and relationships in text
- Text language
- Extracts key phrases, places, people, brands or events
- Understands how positive or negative the text is
- Analyses text using tokenisation and parts of speech
- Automatically organises a collection of text files by topic
- Use cases:
- Analyse customer interactions (emails) to find what leaks to a positive or negative experience
- Create and groups articles by topics that Comprehend will uncover
Amazon SageMaker
- A fully managed service for developers / data scientists to build ML models
- Traditionally, it's difficult to do all these processes in one place and provision servers
- Ex. A simplified machine learning process for predicting exam score
- Historical data --> Labels --> Build model --> Train and tune (repetitive process) --> Apply model to new data --> Prediction
Amazon Forecast
- A fully managed service using ML to deliver highly accurate forecasts
- Ex. Predict future sales of a raincoat
- 50% more accurate than looking at the raw data itself
- Reduce forecasting time from months to hours
- Use case:
- Product demand planning
- Financial planning
- Resource planning
Amazon Kendra
- A fully managed document search service using ML for extracting answers within a document
- Text, PDF, HTML, PowerPoint, MS Word, FAQs, etc.
- Has natural language search capabilities
- Learn from user interactions / feedback to promote preferred results (Incremental Learning)
- Given the ability to manually fine-tune search results (significance of data, recency of data, custom, etc.)
Amazon Personalize
- A fully managed ML service to build apps with real-time personalised recommendations
- Ex. Personalised product recommendations / re-ranking
- Same technology used by Amazon.com
- Integrates into existing websites, applications, SMS, email marketing systems, etc.
- Implement in days, instead of months (no need to build, train and deploy ML solutions)
- Use case:
- Retail stores
- Media
- Entertainment
- A service to automatically extract text, handwriting and data from any scanned documents using AI and ML
- Extract data from forms and tables
- Read and process any type of document (PDFs, images, etc.)
- Use cases:
- Financial services (invoices, financial reports)
- Healthcare (medical records, insurance claims)
- Public sector (tax forms, ID documents, passports)