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- Welcome to Lesson 13, IBM
Watson and Cognitive Computing.

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In this lesson, we're going
to introduce a few features

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of the IBM Watson
cloud-based web services,

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and one of the reasons we chose IBM Watson

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is because they offer a
free lite tier of services,

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which you can register for

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and use without having
to provide a credit card,

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so it makes it great,
not only for students,

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but also for developers who
just want to kind of experiment

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with some of the services
that Watson provides.

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Now we'll start out by
taking a look at demos

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of several of the Watson services,

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some of the more interesting ones

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that I thought I should present to you.

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Then we're going to show you

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how to register for an IBM Cloud account,

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and also, how to set up
and get your credentials

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for working with three specific
services from IBM Watson.

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We're going to be using
the speech to text service

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to transcribe audio recordings

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from English into English text

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and also from Spanish audio
recordings into Spanish text.

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We're going to be using the
language translator service

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to translate English into
Spanish and vice versa,

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and we're going to be using
the text to speech service

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to take English and Spanish texts

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and turn it into audio that
we can play back as well,

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and we're going to mash up
all three of those services

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into a nice little traveler's

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companion language translator app

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that would enable an English
speaker and a Spanish speaker

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to communicate with one another

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even if they don't speak
the other language.