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TensorFlow Machine Learning Projects

By : Ankit Jain, Amita Kapoor
Book Image

TensorFlow Machine Learning Projects

By: Ankit Jain, Amita Kapoor

Overview of this book

TensorFlow has transformed the way machine learning is perceived. TensorFlow Machine Learning Projects teaches you how to exploit the benefits—simplicity, efficiency, and flexibility—of using TensorFlow in various real-world projects. With the help of this book, you’ll not only learn how to build advanced projects using different datasets but also be able to tackle common challenges using a range of libraries from the TensorFlow ecosystem. To start with, you’ll get to grips with using TensorFlow for machine learning projects; you’ll explore a wide range of projects using TensorForest and TensorBoard for detecting exoplanets, TensorFlow.js for sentiment analysis, and TensorFlow Lite for digit classification. As you make your way through the book, you’ll build projects in various real-world domains, incorporating natural language processing (NLP), the Gaussian process, autoencoders, recommender systems, and Bayesian neural networks, along with trending areas such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), capsule networks, and reinforcement learning. You’ll learn how to use the TensorFlow on Spark API and GPU-accelerated computing with TensorFlow to detect objects, followed by how to train and develop a recurrent neural network (RNN) model to generate book scripts. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the required expertise to build full-fledged machine learning projects at work.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Speech to Text and Topic Extraction Using NLP

Recognizing and understanding spoken language is a challenging problem due to the complexity and variety of speech data. There have been several different technologies deployed to recognize spoken words in the past. Most of those approaches were very limited in their scope, as they were unable to recognize a wide variety of words, accents, and tones, and aspects of spoken language, such as a pause between spoken words. Some of the prevalent modeling technique for speech recognition include Hidden Markov Models (HMM), Dynamic Time Warping (DTW), Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTM), and Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC).

In this chapter, we shall learn about various options for speech to text and the prebuilt model from Google's TensorFlow team, using the Speech Commands Dataset. We shall cover the following topics:

  • Speech to text frameworks and toolkits
  • Google Speech Commands Dataset
  • CNN based architecture for speech recognition...