New services expand IBM Watson capabilities to images, speech, and more
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Re: New services expand IBM Watson capabilities to images, speech, and more
#2Some context on the new services. They are built on technology that comes from IBM Research and has been moved into the Watson group in 2014. Some like speech, have been developed for more than 50 years. None of these technologies have overlap with the Watson Jeopardy stack (except for the Watson voice). We will release that stack later this year as a series of services allowing you to build a full Q&A/dialog application.
All the Watson services are still in beta but will start going GA very soon (first one next month). If you have any questions, please fire up, the Watson team is ready to answer.
Re: New services expand IBM Watson capabilities to images, speech, and more
#3Pricing page (which they don't make easy to find): https://console.ng.bluemix.net/#/pricing
When this was first announced I remember reading about their pricing model where they would take a percentage of app revenue. I'm glad to see they offer flat pay-as-you-go pricing now. Some of the Watson services are intriguing.
Re: New services expand IBM Watson capabilities to images, speech, and more
#4Some context on the new services. They are built on technology that comes from IBM Research and has been moved into the Watson group in 2014. Some like speech, have been developed for more than 50 years. None of these technologies have overlap with the Watson Jeopardy stack (except for the Watson voice). We will release that stack later this year as a series of services allowing you to build a full Q&A/dialog applica…
Text-to-speech is very impressive. Thanks!
Re: New services expand IBM Watson capabilities to images, speech, and more
#5Some context on the new services. They are built on technology that comes from IBM Research and has been moved into the Watson group in 2014. Some like speech, have been developed for more than 50 years. None of these technologies have overlap with the Watson Jeopardy stack (except for the Watson voice). We will release that stack later this year as a series of services allowing you to build a full Q&A/dialog applica…
Are you working on any audio (non-speech) analysis services? I have no particular usecase in mind, but it's an area I'm always interested in!
Re: New services expand IBM Watson capabilities to images, speech, and more
#6Now you can buy back stock algorithmically in the cloud!
Re: New services expand IBM Watson capabilities to images, speech, and more
#7Compare the Watson text-to-speech voices with Nuance ...
Watson http://text-to-speech-demo.mybluemix.net/
Nuance http://www.nuance.com/for-business/text-to-speech/vocalizer/...
I prefer the Watson version voicing a sample paragraph. Both are good enough for an application that selects on price. For a voice-first application, maybe Watson is better for TTS.
For speech to text, Nuance has been the leader, e.g. Apple's Siri. Has anyone compared IBM speech recognition to Nuance, Microsoft & Google?
Re: New services expand IBM Watson capabilities to images, speech, and more
#8The text-to-speech is actually a little nicer than Siri or Cortana, but not groundbreaking. This was the only one of the 5 that I thought did well. The rest might have been better without demo pages.
For visual recognition, I used a picture of a snowmobile from http://www.1888goodwin.com/2013/11/14/what-do-you-need-to-do..., which it identified with 73% confidence as "Invertebrate".
Speech to text is a parody twitter account waiting to happen. Here's me asking it how it does with technical transcription:
How do you doing technical words.
If you were going to have to talk about get an jute cushion pull.
And you wanted to discuss the impact on a file server memory.
Issues that cross processes talk about home forks rivers slowed difficult.
Re: New services expand IBM Watson capabilities to images, speech, and more
#9I tried using Watson a month ago without much success. I wanted to do a classification of some random text, and say that this text for example is this category. But as far as I could understand it only allows using their own datasets.
It's not possible to train their service with your data, unlike wit.ai for example. Seems obvious to me that people would want to train with their own data.
Re: New services expand IBM Watson capabilities to images, speech, and more
#10Compare the Watson text-to-speech voices with Nuance ... Watson http://text-to-speech-demo.mybluemix.net/ Nuance http://www.nuance.com/for-business/text-to-speech/vocalizer/... I prefer the Watson version voicing a sample paragraph. Both are good enough for an application that selects on price. For a voice-first application, maybe Watson is better for TTS. For speech to text, Nuance has been the leader, e.g. Apple's…
I believe that the Nuance technology is built on IBM Speech research: http://www.nuance.com/for-business/by-solution/customer-serv...