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Watson now brings cognitive speech capabilities to developers

94 points by pesenti 12y ago

Yhippa 12y ago
Has anyone used Bluemix past the 30-day trial? It looks like you get 375 GB-hours. That sounds like quite a lot of time. It sounds like as a developer I can mess around with their beta services and not worry about paying anything.
- mind_heist 12y ago
  You should give it a try . I have a 30-day trial account and spun up a couple of services. Well the UI is cool , and there are a lot of templates ( boiler plates ) that you could use to get you app up and running. But you might struggle with respect to documentation depending on what services you use. A lot Watson stuff is in Beta ( you could see it when you login to Bluemix) - and you might have troubles with them.
  - picheny 12y ago
    Beta is certainly beta but if you find problems we will try to fix them as quickly as we can. Real users of technologies tend to find issues with the technology much faster than the actual developers...
    - ilyaeck 12y ago
      The ASR seems to be a bit immature, but the TTS sounds very nice. Any plans to add more voices?
- keelyw 12y ago
  I had to input my credit card once I exceeded the 30-day trial, but I haven't been charged for anything because I'm only using the beta services. And even the Bluemix production services allow free usage up to a certain level, which varies by service.
mind_heist 12y ago
Hmm ... I along with a couple of my friends spent the last two days at the DeveloperWeek hackathon trying to explore Watson's capabilites. IBM's PaaS solution is called BlueMix and all of Watson's capabilities are available as Services for you to use. We tried using the "tradeoff Analytics" service for the project - and I must say , the tools and help available around it, the API and its documentation is pretty bad , convoluted and unusable. This is true too other services available through watson too. We looked into IoT ( Internet of things ) as well . And once again , ran into a ton of dead ends without being able to proceed. The API documentation and examples just suck . If you are used to playing around with well documented APIs / Tools / Languages - this is going to be frustrating. If the OP is the person who actually wrote the article , please please please go back to Watson Dev Cloud or BlueMix and try it out your services and APIs an a consumer.
- jsstylos 12y ago
  Hi, sorry you didn't have a good experience with the API and documentation. I'd love to get some more details on what the stumbling blocks were. Thanks, jsstylos@us.ibm.com
  - mind_heist 12y ago
    Hmm .. OK . are there external facing portals to file bugs against the services ?
    - jsstylos 12y ago
      https://developer.ibm.com/answers/smartspace/watson/ https://developer.ibm.com/answers/smartspace/watson/ is our forum for issues with the services.
    - wvonhagen 12y ago
      In addition to filing bugs, I'd love to get suggestions about how we could improve the documentation. Did you find the API reference material lacking, was the problem in the procedural documentation, (or was it both)? Is the problem with our service docs or figuring out Bluemix? As @jsstylos pointed out, the forum is the way to let us know what you think - not just bugs, but thoughts on what's missing and how to improve things. We'd really like you to be successful ;-)
frik 12y ago
In 1999 IBM released a free version of ViaVoice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ViaVoice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ViaVoice). IBM sold ViaVoice in 2003 and all distribution functions passed to ScanSoft, now called Nuance (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/pervasive/viavoice.html http://www-01.ibm.com/software/pervasive/viavoice.html). Does IBM still own the whole stack, or is it based on Nuance code? Are there plans to open up parts of the older voice technology and contribute it e.g. to CMU Sphinx?
- picheny 12y ago
  We only gave up the shrinkwrap product; the core technology stayed with IBM.
- picheny 12y ago
  Sorry, I missed the question at the bottom. We were very proud of ViaVoice at the time but to make an obvious point, the technology has moved on a lot over the past ten or so years...
  - frik 12y ago
    The old ViaVoice can't compete with Watson Voice & Nuance but would be a good alternative to existing open source voice technology that is years behind. It's highly unlikely that IBM would release such tech, nevertheless it would be appreciated.
    - picheny 12y ago
      We are flattered by the interest and will look into it; obviously given no one has looked at this for years, it is not a likely possibility.
npalli 12y ago
What are the plans to release native versions of the api that can be plugged into iOS and Android apps.
- picheny 12y ago
  It's an obvious extension of what we put out; keep watching the Watson Developer Cloud announcements.
oomkiller 12y ago
The ability to create your own models is very important to use this, as your existing ones do a bad job of processing my normal speech. To test I just tried reading a few simple phrases and the error rate is pretty high. The Web Speech API did a great job with the same phrases https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html
- mind_heist 12y ago
  Well - I haven't tried the Speech Service myself . But as dev, we notices pretty high error rates with the 'user modeling service' as well.
- picheny 12y ago
  It is understandable; different people may see different performance depending on what speech service is used. In addition, please keep in mind this is just a beta service; we have only been out there less than a week and know we still have some tuning to do. We also recognize the need for customization and personalization abilities; keep watching our website for continuing developments.
- vaibhava72 12y ago
  Just to rule out a known issue with some laptop built-in microphones (e.g. https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/174176/speech-to-text-audio-problems/?smartspace=watson https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/174176/speech-to... ) - could you let us know if you tried with an external close-talking microphone, and if that mattered at all?
  - oomkiller 12y ago
    It seemed a bit better with my bose headset, but still was quite lacking.
mind_heist 12y ago
There is some thing else I would like to point out as well , IBM folks on this thread can answer the question. This is regarding the "user modeling service" of Watson. I spoke to a couple of IBM folks and asked what are some of the coolest Apps they had seen that was built using Watson - and someone mentioned the following MSNBC article . It's Watson perception about the State of the Union Speech .What the user modelling service does - is to take text as input and sentiment analyze it ( and give outputs around it) http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/how-supercomputer-sees-the-state-the-union http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/how-supercomputer-sees-the-state-... What the folks @ MSNBC did was to pass the last 10 SOTU speeches to Watson and collate the results over a graph. But, Here is why I have trouble believing Watson's perception. Try passing the following input to Watson - (or any other gibberish) "jkldsjglkfdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjgdfskg dfsgj df gfgdflg;dfg g;fkgljsdfgk;gjldfg dgkjldfgdhfgkjdfhjg fkldskf;ksdlf;ksdlfks jkdhfkhsdjkfhksdhj ljfsdjfhdsjkfjskdhfkjsdhf sdfkls;dkfl; dkfl;sd;fsk roweruoweuroiweuroiwe uweoruweoruweo ruweuro kjgsfgjkldfsjgs klfgjfdsl gjfdlkg fd jkldsjglkfdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjgdfskg dfsgj df gfgdflg;dfg g;fkgljsdfg kjgsfgjkldfsjgs klfgjfdslgjfdlkg fd jkldsjglkfdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjgdfskg dfsgj df gfgdflg;dfg g;fkgljsdfg kjgsfgjkldfsjgs klfgjfdsl gjfdlkg fd jkldsjg lkfdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjg dfskg dfsgj df gfgd flg;dfg g;fkglj sdfg kjgs fgjk ldfsj gs klfgjfds lgjfdlkg fd jkldsjg lkfdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjg dfskg fsgj df gf gdflg;dfg g;fkglj sdfg kjgsfgjkldfsjgs klfgjfd slgjfdlkg fd jkldsjglk fdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjgdf skg fsgj df gfgdflg;dfg g;fkgl jsdfg kjgsfgjk ldfsjgs klfgjfdslgjfdlkg fd jkldsjg lkfdsj dfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjgdfskg dfsgj f gfgd flg;dfg g;fkgljsdfg kjgsfgjkldfsjgs fkldskf;ksdlf;ksdlfks jkdhfkhsdjkfhksdhj ljfsdjfhdsjkfjskdhfkjsdhf sdfkls;dkfl; dkfl;sd;fsk roweruoweuroiweuroiwe uweoruweoruweo ruweuro kjgsfgjkldfsjgs klfgjfdsl gjfdlkg fd jkldsjglkfdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjgdfskg dfsgj df gfgdflg;dfg g;fkgljsdfg kjgsfgjkldfsjgs klfgjfdslgjfdlkg fd jkldsjglkfdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjgdfskg dfsgj df gfgdflg;dfg g;fkgljsdfg kjgsfgjkldfsjgs klfgjfdsl gjfdlkg fd jkldsjg lkfdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjg dfskg dfsgj df gfgd flg;dfg g;fkglj sdfg kjgs fgjk ldfsj gs klfgjfds lgjfdlkg fd jkldsjg lkfdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjg dfskg fsgj df gf gdflg;dfg g;fkglj sdfg kjgsfgjkldfsjgs klfgjfd slgjfdlkg fd jkldsjglk fdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjgdf skg fsgj df gfgdflg;dfg g;fkgl jsdfg kjgsfgjk .... ===== And Watson rates it as the following. Big 5 Openness100% Adventurousness100% Artistic interests2% Emotionality1% Imagination100% Intellect100% Authority-challenging100% Conscientiousness93% Achievement striving94% Cautiousness57% Dutifulness1% Orderliness1% Self-discipline81% Self-efficacy3% Extraversion1% Activity level1% Assertiveness1% Cheerfulness1% Excitement-seeking2% Outgoing1% Gregariousness1% Agreeableness1% Altruism1% Cooperation1% Modesty1% Uncompromising1% Sympathy1% Trust1% Emotional range11% Fiery1% Prone to worry10% Melancholy34% Immoderation24% Self-consciousness6% Susceptible to stress9% Needs Challenge61% Closeness84% Curiosity51% Excitement66% Harmony65% Ideal54% Liberty75% Love23% Practicality86% Self-expression25% Stability60% Structure57% Values Conservation78% Openness to change5% Hedonism15% Self-enhancement76% Self-transcendence11% ======== Its plain gibberish , and you still get some results. I tried passing other text transliterated to English and Watson still gives results like this. I would expect it to atleast call it out as gibberish-text.
reledi 12y ago
Live demos that you can play with: Speech to Text: https://speech-to-text-demo.mybluemix.net https://speech-to-text-demo.mybluemix.net Text to Speech: http://text-to-speech-demo.mybluemix.net http://text-to-speech-demo.mybluemix.net
- sho_hn 12y ago
  The speech synthesis is impressive. It's still clearly a computer, but the prosody is a step up from Google and Bing. I threw some random comments I've written at the English Female voice model. It seems capable of contrasting clauses via rising and falling (and handles patterns like "On the other hand, ..." and "She was either ..., or .... when ..." well), makes little dramatic pauses after noun clusters to allow the listener to catch up, inserted a little mental comma into stuff like "greater than x [,] half the time", put emphasis on an "and" after a comma ("[...] something I still haven't gotten used, and am not sure I want to") etc., lots of traits of an aware speaker. Heck, I almost felt like it picked up speed and layered in an ounce of incredulity when it was reading a rant I wrote, but it might just be good enough that I can project into it on that one.
  - visarga 12y ago
    I copy pasted your paragraph into the TTS. I like it very much, but it might just be on the level of Alex from Mac OS. > it might just be good enough that I can <project> into it on that one. Funny. It doesn't stress <project> as a verb, but as a noun, making the whole phrase mean something else. Alex has a list of words like that too: live (to live) and live (live concert), progress (also verb and substantive), record, suspect and a bunch of other words that have multiple pronunciations based on the surrounding words (they are called homophones). They should add homophone disambiguation - probably solvable with a classifier based on features extracted from surrounding words and POS tagging.
z3phyr 12y ago
By cognitive speech, do they mean 'understanding' the natural language? Can somebody please explain how is it different from other solutions?
ilyaeck 12y ago
It looks like IBM is getting serious about Watson, but still not serious enough. To create an ecosystem and incentivize developers to work through all the issues, IBM should probably create an investment fund for startups who build their products based on Watson. Any such plans?
- skadamat 12y ago
  They do have an investment fund for Watson products / startups -- http://www.tefunds.com/ http://www.tefunds.com/
grimborg 12y ago
Most developers I work with already have quite good cognitive speech abilities...

94 points by pesenti 12y ago

Has anyone used Bluemix past the 30-day trial? It looks like you get 375 GB-hours. That sounds like quite a lot of time. It sounds like as a developer I can mess around with their beta services and not worry about paying anything.

mind_heist 12y ago
You should give it a try . I have a 30-day trial account and spun up a couple of services. Well the UI is cool , and there are a lot of templates ( boiler plates ) that you could use to get you app up and running. But you might struggle with respect to documentation depending on what services you use. A lot Watson stuff is in Beta ( you could see it when you login to Bluemix) - and you might have troubles with them.
- picheny 12y ago
  Beta is certainly beta but if you find problems we will try to fix them as quickly as we can. Real users of technologies tend to find issues with the technology much faster than the actual developers...
  - ilyaeck 12y ago
    The ASR seems to be a bit immature, but the TTS sounds very nice. Any plans to add more voices?
keelyw 12y ago
I had to input my credit card once I exceeded the 30-day trial, but I haven't been charged for anything because I'm only using the beta services. And even the Bluemix production services allow free usage up to a certain level, which varies by service.

mind_heist 12y ago

Hmm ... I along with a couple of my friends spent the last two days at the DeveloperWeek hackathon trying to explore Watson's capabilites. IBM's PaaS solution is called BlueMix and all of Watson's capabilities are available as Services for you to use. We tried using the "tradeoff Analytics" service for the project - and I must say , the tools and help available around it, the API and its documentation is pretty bad , convoluted and unusable. This is true too other services available through watson too. We looked into IoT ( Internet of things ) as well . And once again , ran into a ton of dead ends without being able to proceed. The API documentation and examples just suck . If you are used to playing around with well documented APIs / Tools / Languages - this is going to be frustrating. If the OP is the person who actually wrote the article , please please please go back to Watson Dev Cloud or BlueMix and try it out your services and APIs an a consumer.

jsstylos 12y ago
Hi, sorry you didn't have a good experience with the API and documentation. I'd love to get some more details on what the stumbling blocks were. Thanks, jsstylos@us.ibm.com
- mind_heist 12y ago
  Hmm .. OK . are there external facing portals to file bugs against the services ?
  - jsstylos 12y ago
    https://developer.ibm.com/answers/smartspace/watson/ https://developer.ibm.com/answers/smartspace/watson/ is our forum for issues with the services.
  - wvonhagen 12y ago
    In addition to filing bugs, I'd love to get suggestions about how we could improve the documentation. Did you find the API reference material lacking, was the problem in the procedural documentation, (or was it both)? Is the problem with our service docs or figuring out Bluemix? As @jsstylos pointed out, the forum is the way to let us know what you think - not just bugs, but thoughts on what's missing and how to improve things. We'd really like you to be successful ;-)

frik 12y ago

In 1999 IBM released a free version of ViaVoice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ViaVoice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ViaVoice). IBM sold ViaVoice in 2003 and all distribution functions passed to ScanSoft, now called Nuance (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/pervasive/viavoice.html http://www-01.ibm.com/software/pervasive/viavoice.html). Does IBM still own the whole stack, or is it based on Nuance code? Are there plans to open up parts of the older voice technology and contribute it e.g. to CMU Sphinx?

picheny 12y ago
We only gave up the shrinkwrap product; the core technology stayed with IBM.
picheny 12y ago
Sorry, I missed the question at the bottom. We were very proud of ViaVoice at the time but to make an obvious point, the technology has moved on a lot over the past ten or so years...
- frik 12y ago
  The old ViaVoice can't compete with Watson Voice & Nuance but would be a good alternative to existing open source voice technology that is years behind. It's highly unlikely that IBM would release such tech, nevertheless it would be appreciated.
  - picheny 12y ago
    We are flattered by the interest and will look into it; obviously given no one has looked at this for years, it is not a likely possibility.

npalli 12y ago

What are the plans to release native versions of the api that can be plugged into iOS and Android apps.

picheny 12y ago
It's an obvious extension of what we put out; keep watching the Watson Developer Cloud announcements.

oomkiller 12y ago

The ability to create your own models is very important to use this, as your existing ones do a bad job of processing my normal speech. To test I just tried reading a few simple phrases and the error rate is pretty high. The Web Speech API did a great job with the same phrases https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html

mind_heist 12y ago
Well - I haven't tried the Speech Service myself . But as dev, we notices pretty high error rates with the 'user modeling service' as well.
picheny 12y ago
It is understandable; different people may see different performance depending on what speech service is used. In addition, please keep in mind this is just a beta service; we have only been out there less than a week and know we still have some tuning to do. We also recognize the need for customization and personalization abilities; keep watching our website for continuing developments.
vaibhava72 12y ago
Just to rule out a known issue with some laptop built-in microphones (e.g. https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/174176/speech-to-text-audio-problems/?smartspace=watson https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/174176/speech-to... ) - could you let us know if you tried with an external close-talking microphone, and if that mattered at all?
- oomkiller 12y ago
  It seemed a bit better with my bose headset, but still was quite lacking.

mind_heist 12y ago

There is some thing else I would like to point out as well , IBM folks on this thread can answer the question. This is regarding the "user modeling service" of Watson. I spoke to a couple of IBM folks and asked what are some of the coolest Apps they had seen that was built using Watson - and someone mentioned the following MSNBC article . It's Watson perception about the State of the Union Speech .What the user modelling service does - is to take text as input and sentiment analyze it ( and give outputs around it) http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/how-supercomputer-sees-the-state-the-union http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/how-supercomputer-sees-the-state-... What the folks @ MSNBC did was to pass the last 10 SOTU speeches to Watson and collate the results over a graph. But, Here is why I have trouble believing Watson's perception. Try passing the following input to Watson - (or any other gibberish) "jkldsjglkfdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjgdfskg dfsgj df gfgdflg;dfg g;fkgljsdfgk;gjldfg dgkjldfgdhfgkjdfhjg fkldskf;ksdlf;ksdlfks jkdhfkhsdjkfhksdhj ljfsdjfhdsjkfjskdhfkjsdhf sdfkls;dkfl; dkfl;sd;fsk roweruoweuroiweuroiwe uweoruweoruweo ruweuro kjgsfgjkldfsjgs klfgjfdsl gjfdlkg fd jkldsjglkfdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjgdfskg dfsgj df gfgdflg;dfg g;fkgljsdfg kjgsfgjkldfsjgs klfgjfdslgjfdlkg fd jkldsjglkfdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjgdfskg dfsgj df gfgdflg;dfg g;fkgljsdfg kjgsfgjkldfsjgs klfgjfdsl gjfdlkg fd jkldsjg lkfdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjg dfskg dfsgj df gfgd flg;dfg g;fkglj sdfg kjgs fgjk ldfsj gs klfgjfds lgjfdlkg fd jkldsjg lkfdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjg dfskg fsgj df gf gdflg;dfg g;fkglj sdfg kjgsfgjkldfsjgs klfgjfd slgjfdlkg fd jkldsjglk fdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjgdf skg fsgj df gfgdflg;dfg g;fkgl jsdfg kjgsfgjk ldfsjgs klfgjfdslgjfdlkg fd jkldsjg lkfdsj dfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjgdfskg dfsgj f gfgd flg;dfg g;fkgljsdfg kjgsfgjkldfsjgs fkldskf;ksdlf;ksdlfks jkdhfkhsdjkfhksdhj ljfsdjfhdsjkfjskdhfkjsdhf sdfkls;dkfl; dkfl;sd;fsk roweruoweuroiweuroiwe uweoruweoruweo ruweuro kjgsfgjkldfsjgs klfgjfdsl gjfdlkg fd jkldsjglkfdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjgdfskg dfsgj df gfgdflg;dfg g;fkgljsdfg kjgsfgjkldfsjgs klfgjfdslgjfdlkg fd jkldsjglkfdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjgdfskg dfsgj df gfgdflg;dfg g;fkgljsdfg kjgsfgjkldfsjgs klfgjfdsl gjfdlkg fd jkldsjg lkfdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjg dfskg dfsgj df gfgd flg;dfg g;fkglj sdfg kjgs fgjk ldfsj gs klfgjfds lgjfdlkg fd jkldsjg lkfdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjg dfskg fsgj df gf gdflg;dfg g;fkglj sdfg kjgsfgjkldfsjgs klfgjfd slgjfdlkg fd jkldsjglk fdsjgdfls kg;jsf g dsfg fdg jsdfjgdf skg fsgj df gfgdflg;dfg g;fkgl jsdfg kjgsfgjk .... ===== And Watson rates it as the following. Big 5 Openness100% Adventurousness100% Artistic interests2% Emotionality1% Imagination100% Intellect100% Authority-challenging100% Conscientiousness93% Achievement striving94% Cautiousness57% Dutifulness1% Orderliness1% Self-discipline81% Self-efficacy3% Extraversion1% Activity level1% Assertiveness1% Cheerfulness1% Excitement-seeking2% Outgoing1% Gregariousness1% Agreeableness1% Altruism1% Cooperation1% Modesty1% Uncompromising1% Sympathy1% Trust1% Emotional range11% Fiery1% Prone to worry10% Melancholy34% Immoderation24% Self-consciousness6% Susceptible to stress9% Needs Challenge61% Closeness84% Curiosity51% Excitement66% Harmony65% Ideal54% Liberty75% Love23% Practicality86% Self-expression25% Stability60% Structure57% Values Conservation78% Openness to change5% Hedonism15% Self-enhancement76% Self-transcendence11% ======== Its plain gibberish , and you still get some results. I tried passing other text transliterated to English and Watson still gives results like this. I would expect it to atleast call it out as gibberish-text.

reledi 12y ago

Live demos that you can play with: Speech to Text: https://speech-to-text-demo.mybluemix.net https://speech-to-text-demo.mybluemix.net Text to Speech: http://text-to-speech-demo.mybluemix.net http://text-to-speech-demo.mybluemix.net

sho_hn 12y ago
The speech synthesis is impressive. It's still clearly a computer, but the prosody is a step up from Google and Bing. I threw some random comments I've written at the English Female voice model. It seems capable of contrasting clauses via rising and falling (and handles patterns like "On the other hand, ..." and "She was either ..., or .... when ..." well), makes little dramatic pauses after noun clusters to allow the listener to catch up, inserted a little mental comma into stuff like "greater than x [,] half the time", put emphasis on an "and" after a comma ("[...] something I still haven't gotten used, and am not sure I want to") etc., lots of traits of an aware speaker. Heck, I almost felt like it picked up speed and layered in an ounce of incredulity when it was reading a rant I wrote, but it might just be good enough that I can project into it on that one.
- visarga 12y ago
  I copy pasted your paragraph into the TTS. I like it very much, but it might just be on the level of Alex from Mac OS. > it might just be good enough that I can <project> into it on that one. Funny. It doesn't stress <project> as a verb, but as a noun, making the whole phrase mean something else. Alex has a list of words like that too: live (to live) and live (live concert), progress (also verb and substantive), record, suspect and a bunch of other words that have multiple pronunciations based on the surrounding words (they are called homophones). They should add homophone disambiguation - probably solvable with a classifier based on features extracted from surrounding words and POS tagging.

z3phyr 12y ago

By cognitive speech, do they mean 'understanding' the natural language? Can somebody please explain how is it different from other solutions?

ilyaeck 12y ago

It looks like IBM is getting serious about Watson, but still not serious enough. To create an ecosystem and incentivize developers to work through all the issues, IBM should probably create an investment fund for startups who build their products based on Watson. Any such plans?

skadamat 12y ago
They do have an investment fund for Watson products / startups -- http://www.tefunds.com/ http://www.tefunds.com/

grimborg 12y ago

Most developers I work with already have quite good cognitive speech abilities...