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articles/cognitive-services/cognitive-services-apis-create-account-cli.md

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title: Create a Cognitive Services resource via the Azure CLI
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title: Create a Cognitive Services resource using the Azure CLI
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titleSuffix: Azure Cognitive Services
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description: Get started with Azure Cognitive Services by creating and subscribing to a resource via the Azure CLI.
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description: Get started with Azure Cognitive Services by using Azure CLI commands to create and subscribe to a resource.
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services: cognitive-services
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author: aahill
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ms.service: cognitive-services
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keywords: cognitive services, cognitive intelligence, cognitive solutions, ai services
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ms.topic: quickstart
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ms.date: 03/02/2022
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# Quickstart: Create a Cognitive Services resource via the Azure CLI
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# Quickstart: Create a Cognitive Services resource using the Azure CLI
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Use this quickstart to get started with Azure Cognitive Services via the [Azure CLI](/cli/azure/install-azure-cli).
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Use this quickstart to get started with Azure Cognitive Services using [Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI)](/cli/azure/install-azure-cli) commands.
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Azure Cognitive Services are cloud-base services with REST APIs, and client library SDKs available to help developers build cognitive intelligence into applications without having direct artificial intelligence (AI) or data science skills or knowledge. Azure Cognitive Services enables developers to easily add cognitive features into their applications with cognitive solutions that can see, hear, speak, understand, and even begin to reason.
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Azure Cognitive Services are cloud-based services with REST APIs, and client library SDKs available to help developers build cognitive intelligence into applications without having direct artificial intelligence (AI) or data science skills or knowledge. Azure Cognitive Services enables developers to easily add cognitive features into their applications with cognitive solutions that can see, hear, speak, understand, and even begin to reason.
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Cognitive Services are represented by Azure [resources](../azure-resource-manager/management/manage-resources-portal.md) that you create in your Azure subscription. After creating the resource, Use the keys and endpoint generated for you to authenticate your applications.
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description: Cognitive Services makes AI accessible to every developer without requiring machine-learning and data-science expertise. You need to make an API call from your application to add the ability to see (advanced image search and recognition), hear, speak, search, and decision-making into your apps.
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keywords: cognitive services, cognitive intelligence, cognitive solutions, ai services, cognitive understanding, cognitive features
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ms.topic: overview
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# What are Azure Cognitive Services?
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Azure Cognitive Services are cloud-based services with REST APIs, client library SDKs, and user interfaces available to help you build cognitive intelligence into your applications. You can add cognitive features to your applications without having artificial intelligence (AI) or data science skills. Cognitive Services comprises various AI services that enable you to build cognitive solutions that can see, hear, speak, understand, and even make decisions.
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Azure Cognitive Services are cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) services that help you build cognitive intelligence into your applications. They are available as REST APIs, client library SDKs, and user interfaces. You can add cognitive features to your applications without having AI or data science skills. Cognitive Services enable you to build cognitive solutions that can see, hear, speak, understand, and even make decisions.
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## Categories of Cognitive Services
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See the tables below to learn about the services offered within those categories.
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|[Computer Vision](./computer-vision/index.yml "Computer Vision")|The Computer Vision service provides you with access to advanced cognitive algorithms for processing images and returning information. See [Computer Vision quickstart](./computer-vision/quickstarts-sdk/client-library.md) to get started with the service.|
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|[Custom Vision](./custom-vision-service/index.yml "Custom Vision Service")|The Custom Vision Service lets you build, deploy, and improve your own image classifiers. An image classifier is an AI service that applies labels to images, based on their visual characteristics. |
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|[Face](./face/index.yml "Face")| The Face service provides access to advanced face algorithms, enabling face attribute detection and recognition. See [Face quickstart](./face/quickstarts/client-libraries.md) to get started with the service.|
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|[Computer Vision](./computer-vision/index.yml "Computer Vision")|The Computer Vision service provides you with access to advanced cognitive algorithms for processing images and returning information.| [Computer Vision quickstart](./computer-vision/quickstarts-sdk/client-library.md)|
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|[Custom Vision](./custom-vision-service/index.yml "Custom Vision Service")|The Custom Vision Service lets you build, deploy, and improve your own image classifiers. An image classifier is an AI service that applies labels to images, based on their visual characteristics. | [Custom Vision quickstart](./custom-vision-service/getting-started-build-a-classifier.md)|
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|[Face](./face/index.yml "Face")| The Face service provides access to advanced face algorithms, enabling face attribute detection and recognition.| [Face quickstart](./face/quickstarts/client-libraries.md)|
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|[Speech service](./speech-service/index.yml "Speech service")|Speech service adds speech-enabled features to applications. Speech service includes various capabilities like speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speech translation, and many more.|
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|[Speech service](./speech-service/index.yml "Speech service")|Speech service adds speech-enabled features to applications. Speech service includes various capabilities like speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speech translation, and many more.| Go to the [Speech documentation](./speech-service/index.yml) to choose a subservice quickstart.|
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|[Language Understanding LUIS](./luis/index.yml "Language Understanding")|Language Understanding (LUIS) is a cloud-based conversational AI service that applies custom machine-learning intelligence to a user's conversational or natural language text to predict overall meaning and pull out relevant information. [See LUIS quickstart](./luis/luis-get-started-create-app.md) to get started with the service.|
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|[QnA Maker](./qnamaker/index.yml "QnA Maker")|QnA Maker allows you to build a question and answer service from your semi-structured content. [See QnA Maker quickstart](./qnamaker/quickstarts/create-publish-knowledge-base.md) to get started with the service.|
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|[Language service](./language-service/index.yml "Language service")| Azure Language service provides several Natural Language Processing (NLP) features to understand and analyze text.| Go to the [Language documentation](./language-service/index.yml) to choose a subservice quickstart.|
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Cognitive Services provides several support options to help you move forward with creating intelligent applications. Cognitive Services also has a strong community of developers that can help answer your specific questions. For a full list of support options available to you, see [Cognitive Services support and help options](cognitive-services-support-options.md "Cognitive Services support and help options").
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