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- Before you can work with IBM Watson

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and the many other IBM Cloud services

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that are available to you,

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you will need to register for an account.

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And one of the things
that's nice about IBM

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is that you can sign up for free

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to use most of the services.

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And no credit card is required,

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which makes it particularly
nice as well for students

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to use this service to learn
various Watson capabilities,

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but also various AI
capabilities in general as well.

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Now one of the things that you'll find

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in the online documentation
for each service,

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and we'll start to see
this in subsequent videos,

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is that they list for each service

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what the tiered offerings are.

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The free lite tier that's
available for most,

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but not all of the services,

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does limit your use.

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But in our experience
provides enough access

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to enable you to learn how to use Watson,

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and start to develop your apps.

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And the paid tiers are
available if you decide

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to go further and use it
for commercial applications.

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So to sign up for your
free IBM Cloud account,

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you are going to want to go to this URL,

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cloud.ibm.com/registration.

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You'll want to complete the
form that they provide there.

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And once you do that,

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you will receive an e-mail in your inbox

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with instructions on
confirming your account.

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So you do want to make sure
you go through that process

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before continuing with this lesson,

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if in fact you plan to sign up to use

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the various Watson services that we'll use

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in our language translator
app later on in this lesson.

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Now separately,

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once you've registered,

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you'll be able to go to
the Watson Dashboard.

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And from there you're going
to have your launch point

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where I'll show you
later on in this lesson

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how to register for
several of the services

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that we're going to use,

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get the credentials for those services

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and, as you'll see,

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we'll store those credentials

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in a source code file called keys.py

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in the folder for this lesson's examples.

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And from there we'll
load up those credentials

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as we begin working with the
various IBM web services.

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Now I just want to take
a moment to show you

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this developer dashboard.

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So this is the Watson Dashboard,

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and from here,

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and in the next several
videos in particular,

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we're going to be browsing
through some of these services.

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You also have access to
the existing services

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that you've registered for.

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So I'm going to open that

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in a separate tab here
just to demonstrate.

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And as you can see here,

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I have three services
that I've signed up for.

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And later on in this lesson,

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you will sign up for these same three.

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And I'm actually going to delete these

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before I show you how to do that

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so that you see the process from scratch.

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But all of this requires
you to be logged in

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to the IBM Cloud in the first place,

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otherwise you can't access
registering for a service

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and getting the credentials
that you'll need.

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Separately, in this same web page here,

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you'll notice that there's a
lot of developer resources,

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including the documentation
that you'll use

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if you want to learn
more about the services

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beyond what we show you in this lesson.