14 IBM Watson and Cognitive Computing
Objectives
In this chapter you’ll:
Learn Watson’s range of services and use their Lite tier to become familiar with them at no charge.
Try lots of demos of Watson services.
Understand what cognitive computing is and how you can incorporate it into your applications.
Register for an IBM Cloud account and get credentials to use various services.
Install the Watson Developer Cloud Python SDK to interact with Watson services.
Develop a traveler’s companion language translator app by using Python to weave together a mashup of the Watson Speech to Text, Language Translator and Text to Speech services.
Learn about the Watson Analytics platform’s automated data preparation, predictive modeling and visualization ...
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