Azure Cognitive Services is a set of Azure APIs that makes it easy to enhance your applications. Azure Cognitive Services allows you to permeate your apps, websites, and bots with intelligent algorithms. QnA Maker is a cognitive offering by Microsoft, categorized under the language API.

In this course, you'll learn how to integrate QnA Maker with Azure Bot Service and Microsoft Bot Framework, and then integrate the developed bot with social channels. You'll get familiar with QnA Maker's FAQ knowledge base with Azure Bot Service, where you will discover how to get started with a web app bot using Azure Portal. You'll learn to deploy your bot on Azure Web App, making your bot live. Finally, you will learn how to add media content—including videos and images—to the QnA Maker knowledge base. By the end of this course, you will be confident about using and implementing Cognitive Services Language APIs in your business apps to help you take your overall understanding of the Microsoft Cognitive Services Suite to the next level.

About the Author

Mehreen Tahir is an all-round software developer from Rabwah, Pakistan. She has a strong focus on the Microsoft Azure platform and has experience with designing and developing maintainable, future-proof and resilient applications using the latest and greatest services on the Azure platform. She has been involved in several projects using a variety of cognitive services from QnA Maker to LUIS chatbots and other.

Not only is she passionate about developing real-world apps and solutions, but she also enjoys sharing her expertise and knowledge with others through technical articles on different online communities including C# corner and Code Project. She has been awarded MVP Award by C# corner for her contributions. In her spare time, she's involved in speaking and providing in-person mentoring and training sessions.