Microsoft also announced a joint effort with chip-maker Qualcomm Technologies to create a vision AI developer kit running the "Azure IoT Edge" platform.
The company unveiled "Project Kinect for Azure" -- a package of sensors, including a next-generation depth camera with onboard compute designed for AI.
With this, developers can build a variety of voice-enabled scenarios like drive-through ordering systems, in-car or in-home assistants, smart speakers, etc.
Microsoft has announced a unique partnership with China-based DJI the world's biggest drone company.
DJI is said to create a new Software Development Kit (SDK) for Window's PC.
SDK will bring full flight control and real time data transfer across 700 million Windows 10 active devices globally.
DJI and Microsoft will co-develop solutions leveraging "Azure IOT Edge" and Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence (AI) services.
DJI also selected Microsoft Azure as a preferred Cloud provider to improve their commercial drone and Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) solutions.
Microsoft also announced a joint effort with chip-maker Qualcomm Technologies to create a vision AI developer kit running the "Azure IoT Edge" platform.
The company unveiled "Project Kinect for Azure" -- a package of sensors, including a next-generation depth camera with onboard compute designed for AI.
"Project Kinect for Azure" empowers new scenarios for developers working with ambient intelligence to dramatically improve insights and operations.
The company also announced "Speech Devices SDK" that delivers better audio processing from multi-channel sources for more accurate speech recognition.
With this, developers can build a variety of voice-enabled scenarios like drive-through ordering systems, in-car or in-home assistants, smart speakers, etc.