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Google Cloud AI Services Quick Start Guide

By : Arvind Ravulavaru
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Google Cloud AI Services Quick Start Guide

By: Arvind Ravulavaru

Overview of this book

<p>Cognitive services are the new way of adding intelligence to applications and services. Now we can use Artificial Intelligence as a service that can be consumed by any application or other service, to add smartness and make the end result more practical and useful.</p> <p>Google Cloud AI enables you to consume Artificial Intelligence within your applications, from a REST API.  Text, video and speech analysis are among the powerful machine learning features that can be used. This book is the easiest way to get started with the Google Cloud AI services suite and open up the world of smarter applications.</p> <p>This book will help you build a Smart Exchange, a forum application that will let you upload videos, images and perform text to speech conversions and translation services. You will use the power of Google Cloud AI Services to make our simple forum application smart by validating the images, videos, and text provided by users to Google Cloud AI Services and make sure the content which is uploaded follows the forum standards, without a human curator involvement.</p> <p>You will learn how to work with the Vision API, Video Intelligence API, Speech Recognition API, Cloud Language Process, and Cloud Translation API services to make your application smarter.</p> <p>By the end of this book, you will have a strong understanding of working with Google Cloud AI Services, and be well on the way to building smarter applications.</p>
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Setting up an authentication

When working with any Google Cloud AI service, we need to have either an API key or a
service account key set up. In this section, we are going to set up both, so you can use any
approach to explore. Before we set up the API key or a service account, we need to have a
Google Cloud project. If you already have a project, you can skip this section.

Creating the project

To create a new project, follow the below steps:

  1. Navigate to Google Platform Console: https://console.cloud.google.com/
  2. Create a new project using the project selector menu form the top navigation bar of the page
  3. I have created a new project for this book named as SmartExchange and have given a custom project ID as smart-exchange...