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Mobile Deep Learning with TensorFlow Lite, ML Kit and Flutter

By : Anubhav Singh, Rimjhim Bhadani
Book Image

Mobile Deep Learning with TensorFlow Lite, ML Kit and Flutter

By: Anubhav Singh, Rimjhim Bhadani

Overview of this book

Deep learning is rapidly becoming the most popular topic in the mobile app industry. This book introduces trending deep learning concepts and their use cases with an industrial and application-focused approach. You will cover a range of projects covering tasks such as mobile vision, facial recognition, smart artificial intelligence assistant, augmented reality, and more. With the help of eight projects, you will learn how to integrate deep learning processes into mobile platforms, iOS, and Android. This will help you to transform deep learning features into robust mobile apps efficiently. You’ll get hands-on experience of selecting the right deep learning architectures and optimizing mobile deep learning models while following an application oriented-approach to deep learning on native mobile apps. We will later cover various pre-trained and custom-built deep learning model-based APIs such as machine learning (ML) Kit through Firebase. Further on, the book will take you through examples of creating custom deep learning models with TensorFlow Lite. Each project will demonstrate how to integrate deep learning libraries into your mobile apps, right from preparing the model through to deployment. By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered the skills to build and deploy deep learning mobile applications on both iOS and Android.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Adding audio interactions with the assistant

Now, we will add speech recognition to the application so that it can listen to the user's queries and act accordingly.

Adding the plugin

We will be using the speech_recognition plugin here. Let's add the dependency, as follows:

  1. Add the dependency to the pubspec.yaml file, like so:
dependencies:
speech_recognition: "^0.3.0"
  1. Get the packages by running the following command-line argument:
 flutter packages get
  1. Now, since we are using the microphone of the device, we need to ask for the user's permission. To do this, we need to add the following lines of code:

On iOS, permissions are specified inside infos.plist:

<key>NSMicrophoneUsageDescription...