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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence on Amazon Web Services

By : Subhashini Tripuraneni, Charles Song
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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence on Amazon Web Services

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By: Subhashini Tripuraneni, Charles Song

Overview of this book

From data wrangling through to translating text, you can accomplish this and more with the artificial intelligence and machine learning services available on AWS. With this book, you’ll work through hands-on exercises and learn to use these services to solve real-world problems. You’ll even design, develop, monitor, and maintain machine and deep learning models on AWS. The book starts with an introduction to AI and its applications in different industries, along with an overview of AWS artificial intelligence and machine learning services. You’ll then get to grips with detecting and translating text with Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Translate. The book will assist you in performing speech-to-text with Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Polly. Later, you’ll discover the use of Amazon Comprehend for extracting information from text, and Amazon Lex for building voice chatbots. You will also understand the key capabilities of Amazon SageMaker such as wrangling big data, discovering topics in text collections, and classifying images. Finally, you’ll cover sales forecasting with deep learning and autoregression, before exploring the importance of a feedback loop in machine learning. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to implement AI in AWS through hands-on exercises that cover all aspects of the ML model life cycle.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Introduction and Anatomy of a Modern AI Application
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Section 2: Building Applications with AWS AI Services
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Section 3: Training Machine Learning Models with Amazon SageMaker
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Section 4: Machine Learning Model Monitoring and Governance

Implementing services

Let's implement this application layer by layer, starting with the service implementations that contain the crucial AI capabilities that make the Universal Translator tick.

Transcription service – speech-to-text

In the Universal Translator, we are going to translate spoken words from one language to another. The first step of this translation process is to know which words were spoken. For this, we are going to use the Amazon Transcribe service. Amazon Transcribe uses deep learning based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) algorithms to generate text from speech.

Let's use the AWS CLI to understand how the Transcribe service works. Issue the following command to start a transcription:

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