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2023 was the year when we finally overcame the pandemic that affected many aspects of our lives. We resumed our normal activities while also applying the lessons we learned from a challenging situation, where we had to limit our travel, social interactions, and work remotely. From a business perspective, the year was very rewarding for us. Our company, atwork, received the Innovation award 2023 from Microsoft Austria for our AI4Good project, which uses AI to assist with sign language communication in various scenarios. ...

Congratulations to the atwork team behind the Sign Language Project (SLRproject.ai) for winning the Microsoft Austria Partner Innovation Award 2023! The project aims to develop a machine learning model that can automatically translate Sign Language into text and transmit this text into various communication programs, such as Microsoft Teams. It is an innovative development and research project for sign language recognition with Azure Artificial Intelligence Services (Azure AI). The SLR project is a remarkable example of how technology can have a positive impact on society using modern AI technology. We congratulate the project initiator Peter Hödl, who started this project around two years ago and continues to work hard together with the team to create an integrable solution. ...

We were excited to be a part of the Spring 2023 edition of M365Conf, held April 30th - May 5th in Las Vegas. The M365Conf event was a major success, featuring a wide range of sessions, workshops, and networking opportunities that provided attendees with valuable insights and knowledge about the latest developments in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. And of course Microsoft Copilot was a big part of the announcements alongside the many helpful updates in the M365 services. ...

Sharing functionalities in Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online improve collaboration and file exchange. SharePoint Online has become an invaluable tool for businesses of all sizes. One of the most recent additions to the platform is the new File Request feature, which allows users to easily request files from other users. In this blog post, we will discuss how to configure the new File Request feature in SharePoint Online and OneDrive and provide some helpful links to references for further reading. This feature is a fantastic way to streamline the process of collecting files from outside sources, and it’s easy to configure in SharePoint Online. ...

Did you miss the latest Microsoft’s AI announcements? We’ve got you covered with updates from Microsoft AI services here with the links to the relevant articles. (Picture generated with Microsoft Designer) Jack Rowbotham, Microsoft Product Marketing Manager for the Power Platform and Conversational AI, created several LinkedIn posts containing articles that detailed the AI announcements across various Microsoft services. Thx Jack! We copied the links from the posts as a summary here and added links to the Microsoft announcements and added some more useful links. Here we go: ...

Today Microsoft announced Microsoft 365 Copilot at a LinkedIn Live event. Microsoft describes the service as an “AI-powered tool that boosts productivity and creativity in the Microsoft 365 world”. Microsoft 365 Copilot integrates with popular Microsoft apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, but also with Power Apps, Power Automate and the Microsoft Graph API. The new business chat feature streamlines work across data and apps in Microsoft Teams. See some first impressions and features here. ...

Worum geht es in dem Projekt? Wir bei atwork haben zurzeit ein superspannendes Projekt mit dem Titel “AI for Good” laufen, für das wir Deine Mithilfe benötigen. Wir haben ein Software-Tool entwickelt, mit dem es möglich ist mittels Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) Gebärdensprache automatisch in Untertitel etwa in Microsoft Teams oder Zoom Onlinemeetings zu übersetzen. Damit das auch wirklich gut funktioniert, benötigen wir GebärdensprecherInnen für die Österreichische Gebärdensprache (ÖGS), die mit uns gemeinsam kurze Videos einiger Basisgebärden aufnehmen. Zu Beginn werden wir rund 50 Gebärden aufnehmen, mit denen wir unser KI-Model trainieren und optimieren wollen. Zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt wollen wir das Trainingsdaten-Set auf rund 500 Gebärden erweitern. ...

Microsoft AI Labs has some nice projects to try out on their website. One is the Sketch2Code project. “Sketch2Code uses AI to convert hand-written drawings to working HTML prototypes.” Let´s try it out! The Microsoft AI Lab projects website shows a bunch of interesting projects. Some of them are probably known, others are worth to explore. The Sketch2Code website informs about the project: Transform any hands-drawn design into a HTML code with AI. Kindly, there´s also a lab that demonstrates how to use Azure Custom Vision to create an application that is capable of transforming a hand-drawn user interface into valid HTML markup available at Sketch2Code Lab! ...

Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) allows to analyze large amount of data, even interpreting and indexing handwritten documents and learning key topics. In the Microsoft AI.Lab, engineers combined Azure Search and Cognitive Services to analyze more than 34,000 pages and scanned evidence photos related to the assassination of US president John F. Kennedy in 1963 that went public. Read more about burning questions and see the results online. Many secret JFK files have been released in 2017, but there were too much information and too much unstructured data to go through. So, modern technology helps to analyze the data and to deliver relevant details. The Microsoft AI.Lab project is using Cognitive Search that is powered by Azure Search with built in Cognitive Services: “It pulls data from almost any data source and applies a set of composable cognitive skills which extract knowledge”. This approach allows to get answers and relationships in context with the original documents. ...

Azure Cognitive Services offer a bunch of services. One is the Sentiment Analysis API that allows to analyze unstructured text for tasks such as sentiment analysis based on Microsoft machine learning algorithms. See the first steps how to use that here. The test works in the same way with Postman as in the previous article.The goal here is to analyze some text to get a positive or negative result of the meaning. ...