Google Cloud AI Services Quick Start Guide (ePub)

Leverage the power of various Google Cloud AI Services by building a smart web application using MEAN Stack

Key Features

• Start working with the Google Cloud Platform and the AI services it offers


• Build smart web applications by combining the power of Google Cloud AI services and the MEAN stack


• Build a web-based dashboard of smart applications that perform language processing, translation, and computer vision on the cloud

Book Description

Cognitive services are the new way of adding intelligence to applications and services. Now we can use Artificial Intelligence as a service that can be consumed by any application or other service, to add smartness and make the end result more practical and useful.

Google Cloud AI enables you to consume Artificial Intelligence within your applications, from a REST API.  Text, video and speech analysis are among the powerful machine learning features that can be used. This book is the easiest way to get started with the Google Cloud AI services suite and open up the world of smarter applications.

This book will help you build a Smart Exchange, a forum application that will let you upload videos, images and perform text to speech conversions and translation services. You will use the power of Google Cloud AI Services to make our simple forum application smart by validating the images, videos, and text provided by users to Google Cloud AI Services and make sure the content which is uploaded follows the forum standards, without a human curator involvement.

You will learn how to work with the Vision API, Video Intelligence API, Speech Recognition API, Cloud Language Process, and Cloud Translation API services to make your application smarter.

By the end of this book, you will have a strong understanding of working with Google Cloud AI Services, and be well on the way to building smarter applications.

What you will learn

• Understand Google Cloud Platform and its Cloud AI services


• Explore the Google ML Services


• Work with an Angular 5 MEAN stack application


• Integrate Vision API, Video Intelligence API for computer vision


• Be ready for conversational experiences with the Speech Recognition API, Cloud Language Process and Cloud Translation API services


• Build a smart web application that uses the power of Google Cloud AI services to make apps smarter

Who this book is for

This book is ideal for data professionals and web developers who want to use the power of Google Cloud AI services in their projects, without the going through the pain of mastering machine learning for images, videos and text. Some familiarity with the Google Cloud Platform will be helpful.