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Journey to Become a Google Cloud Machine Learning Engineer

By : Dr. Logan Song
Book Image

Journey to Become a Google Cloud Machine Learning Engineer

By: Dr. Logan Song

Overview of this book

This book aims to provide a study guide to learn and master machine learning in Google Cloud: to build a broad and strong knowledge base, train hands-on skills, and get certified as a Google Cloud Machine Learning Engineer. The book is for someone who has the basic Google Cloud Platform (GCP) knowledge and skills, and basic Python programming skills, and wants to learn machine learning in GCP to take their next step toward becoming a Google Cloud Certified Machine Learning professional. The book starts by laying the foundations of Google Cloud Platform and Python programming, followed the by building blocks of machine learning, then focusing on machine learning in Google Cloud, and finally ends the studying for the Google Cloud Machine Learning certification by integrating all the knowledge and skills together. The book is based on the graduate courses the author has been teaching at the University of Texas at Dallas. When going through the chapters, the reader is expected to study the concepts, complete the exercises, understand and practice the labs in the appendices, and study each exam question thoroughly. Then, at the end of the learning journey, you can expect to harvest the knowledge, skills, and a certificate.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: Starting with GCP and Python
4
Part 2: Introducing Machine Learning
8
Part 3: Mastering ML in GCP
13
Part 4: Accomplishing GCP ML Certification
15
Part 5: Appendices
Appendix 2: Practicing Using the Python Data Libraries

Google Cloud Text-To-Speech API

The Google Cloud Text-to-Speech API maps natural language texts to human-like speech. The initial step is to enable the Text-to-Speech API:

Go to Cloud Shell by clicking on the Shell icon. Before diving into the API, check the list of the supported voices and languages. You can check the available languages and voices via Google Cloud Shell using the following command:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer "$(gcloud auth application-default print-access-token) \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
     "https://texttospeech.googleapis.com/v1/voices"

The preceding command will list all possible languages and voices, along with their corresponding code. The following screenshot shows just a small part of the list:

Next, we need to create a JSON file named synthesize-text.json, where we will specify...