Publish your active, trained app to a staging or production endpoint

When you finish building, training, and testing your active LUIS app, make it available to your client application by publishing it to the endpoint.

Publishing

  1. Sign in to the LUIS portal, and select your Subscription and Authoring resource to see the apps assigned to that authoring resource.

  2. Open your app by selecting its name on My Apps page.

  3. To publish to the endpoint, select Publish in the top, right panel.

    Publish button in top, right nav bar

  4. Select your settings for the published prediction endpoint, then select Publish.

    Select publish settings then select Publish button

Publishing slots

Select the correct slot when the pop-up window displays:

  • Staging
  • Production

By using both publishing slots, this allows you to have two different versions of your app available at the published endpoints or the same version on two different endpoints.

Publishing regions

The app is published to all regions associated with the LUIS prediction endpoint resources added in the LUIS portal from the Manage -> Azure Resources page.

For example, for an app created on www.luis.ai, if you create a LUIS resource in two regions, westus and eastus, and add these to the app as resources, the app is published in both regions. For more information about LUIS regions, see Regions.

Tip

There are 3 authoring regions. You must author in the region you intend to publish to. If you need to publish to all regions, you need to manage your authoring process and the resulting trained model in all 3 authoring regions.

Configuring publish settings

After you select the slot, configure the publish settings for:

  • Sentiment analysis
  • Speech priming

After you publish, these settings are available for review from the Manage section's Publish settings page. You can change the settings with every publish. If you cancel a publish, any changes you made during the publish are also canceled.

When your app is published

When your app is successfully published, a success notification appears at the top of the browser. The notification also includes a link to the endpoints.

If you need the endpoint URL, select the link. You can also get to the endpoint URLs by selecting Manage in the top menu, then select Azure Resources in the left menu.

Sentiment analysis

Sentiment analysis allows LUIS to integrate with the Language service to provide sentiment and key phrase analysis.

You do not have to provide a Language service key and there is no billing charge for this service to your Azure account.

Sentiment data is a score between 1 and 0 indicating the positive (closer to 1) or negative (closer to 0) sentiment of the data. The sentiment label of positive, neutral, and negative is per supported culture. Currently, only English supports sentiment labels.

For more information about the JSON endpoint response with sentiment analysis, see Sentiment analysis

Speech priming

Speech priming is the process of using sending the LUIS model to Speech services prior to conversion of text to speech. This allows the speech service to provide speech conversion more accurately for your model. This allows bot Speech and LUIS requests and responses in one call by making one speech call and getting back a LUIS response. It provides less latency overall.

Next steps

  • See Manage keys to add keys to Azure subscription key to LUIS and how to set the Bing Spell Check key and include all intents in results.
  • See Train and test your app for instructions on how to test your published app in the test console.