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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit or CNTK is the best toolkit available for python for image recognition.Also it can be used with many other languages that you use.It gives you power to use the intelligence of very large datasets which helps you get the variety of data.Also it give you commercial-grade quality and support as stated on its website.You can get very good accuracy and that also with less time while training on its gpu which reduces your cpu usage.It also has many other features which you can check it out on the CNTK website.Support document is also good.It has everything stated which can be understood very easily right from installation to creating your own classifier and everything in between.It is a good API and must try once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

I have nothing to dislike about Microsoft's CNTK. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I recommend using CNTK if you want to use the pretrained and precoded Machine learning and deep learning classifiers for image recognition or any other use.Its algorithms are having very much good accuracy with great scalability power and performance.You should try using it for integrating ML algorithms to your product.I recommend it to very much to use it for developing ML and DL classifiers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have been using Microsoft CNTK since 2 years and have created various classifier models according to my usage by using either their dataset or my own.I have also used their pretrained classifiers when the product required general usage like character recognition or so.It is very easy to use and while using it with python its just very easy to develop such classifiers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) Overview

What is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit is an open-source, commercial-grade toolkit that empowers user to harness the intelligence within massive datasets through deep learning by providing uncompromised scaling, speed and accuracy with commercial-grade quality and compatibility with the programming languages and algorithms already use.

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Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit is an open-source, commercial-grade toolkit that empowers user to harness the intelligence within massive datasets through deep learning by providing uncompromised scaling, speed and accuracy with commercial-grade quality and compatibility with the programming languages and algorithms already use.


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This is best of the best tool in now day to handle day to day things with AI, one of the special features detecting people by the face and the outp...
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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit has good workflow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit has is overwhelming Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) help us write editors review and in overall user sentiment analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

CNTK is an open source toolkit by Microsoft as it supports deep learning. It is easy to describe neural networks with the help of directed graph. It also supports library for multiple languages such as python, c# etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

As of now nothing as i am very impressed with library functionalities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solves problems of day to day by using AI like face detection & output data handling is very easy & secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

Most helpful feature is easy navigation and low code for model creation. Any novice can easily understand the platform and create models easily. Support for various libraries for different languages makes it stand out! Great product compared to Google AutoML. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

There are multiple libraries that can be easily used for different scenarios. Even the language support is tremendously good. No dislikes as of now, will surely share if I ever come across. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am trying to crete different projects for NLP and DL. MS Cognitive Toolkit is helping me by providing access to huge data sets and ease of injecting data. I really love the drag and drop option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

I really like the way it is optimized to achieve faster execution and predictions of the deep learning model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

To be honest I do not see anything that I potentially dislike but I believe there will always be something we can do to make it even better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Simplfying the process of model creation could be promising. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

This is best of the best tool in now day to handle day to day things with AI, one of the special features detecting people by the face and the output data provided by service is very easy and fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

The Q and A service I real feel Microsoft may make them more friendly and interactive with the developer.

Also I feel they can give developer more options to customise the things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used vision api to detect people face and q and a service both help me infast execution in attendance and dealing with user questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

Computer Vision services like form processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

NLP services like Named entity recognizer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps to provide pre-build models used for generic cognitive services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

Detailed documentation and easy to use web and command interface. Most of the results have been accurate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

Less control to customize the services to our requirements and buggy updates to CNTK SDKs which sometimes breaks the production code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK):

I highly recommend this to my colleagues and all others who wants to explore and get started with AI/ML services. This is backed by Microsoft which has vast set of training data and evolving continuously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Building next generation conversational Bots with advanced natural language capabilities and speech support which also handles chitchat and FAQs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

Easy to implement complex DNNs, Great for Audio Related Projects, Great for research Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

Lack of documentation in detailed methods, Lack of community help, Lack of visualization, Lack of repository examples compared to TensorFlow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Try to read documentation and review missing points from github repositories. Some methods are there, however, details have not been written Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

While building DNNs for spell checker in a new language, I saw a great benefit of manual modifications CNTK does allow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

I liked their clear documentation on how to use the valuable tool. Best tool visualisation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

The thing which I disliked is it needed some better community support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Need to get better community support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I would use to solve the problems of conversation user interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

supports 64-bit linux, also supports large datasets. optimized for x86. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK)?

Lack of community support. Needs a lot of tweaking for performance when compared to tensorflow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have used it for performance benchmarking on x86 servers to compare against caffe, tensorflow and pytorch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.