Can I take this course on Windows?
No. You must have a Mac to complete the labs in this course. You must also have experience with Swift and Xcode.
Offered By: IBMDeveloperSkillsNetwork
Build Swift Mobile Apps with Watson AI Services
Build three AI iOS apps in the cloud by using Watson services so that you can analyze the emotion and sentiment in text, recognize what's in a photo, and convert text to speech.
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At a Glance
Build three AI iOS apps in the cloud by using Watson services so that you can analyze the emotion and sentiment in text, recognize what's in a photo, and convert text to speech.
About this course
In this short course, you'll learn how to write three mobile apps in Swift on iOS that use the IBM Watson™ Cloud Developer SDK to access the Watson service.
You'll learn how to write those applications by using the following Watson services:
- Watson Natural Language Understanding: A collection of APIs that provide text analysis by processing natural language. For this course, you’ll use this service to identify the sentiment and emotion in text.
- Visual Recognition: Analyzes images for scenes, objects, people, signs, and other content. With this service, you’ll provide a URL to an image that your application will identify.
- Text to Speech: Synthesizes natural-sounding speech from input text in a variety of languages and voices that speak with appropriate cadence and intonation.
IBM Watson AI services, which are hosted on IBM Cloud, can be accessed through RESTful API calls. You’ll learn how to call these services from your Swift application.
Course outline
- Watson AI services overview
- Lab 1: Analyze sentiment
- Watson Natural Language Understanding service
- Create an iOS application in Swift
- Install Carthage and add the Watson SDK to your project
- Create the Watson service and analyze sentiment
- Lab 1 quiz
- Lab 2: Recognize images
- Watson Visual Recognition service
- Create an iOS application in Swift
- Add the Watson service to the mobile app
- Detect default classifications of an image
- Detect faces in an image with a classification “person”
- Run the Watson application
- Lab 2 quiz
- Lab 3: Convert text to speech
- Watson Text to Speech service
- Create an iOS application in Swift
- Add the Watson service to the mobile app
- Convert text to speech
- Lab 3 quiz
- Final exam
Prerequisite skills
To be successful in this course, you should have experience developing simple mobile applications in Swift and iOS. This course does not teach the basics of Xcode and Swift application development. See the Xcode documentation if you need more information.
Prerequisite software
You need an IBM Cloud account.
You also need the following software:
- Mac OS X El Capitan or later
- Swift 4.0.x
- Xcode 9 or later
- Carthage (package manager similar to Ant)
Frequently asked questions
What will I get after I complete this course?
You will get a course completion certificate. Please note that there is no badge offered for this course.
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Course instructors
Marek Sadowski
Marek Sadowski is a full stack developer advocate, a robotics startup founder, and an entrepreneur. He has 20 years of experience in consulting large enterprises in USA, Japan, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. As a graduate from the International Space University, Marek pioneered in a research on VR goggles for the virtual reality system to control robots on Mars in NASA Ames. He founded a startup to deliver robotics solutions and services for industries. Marek moved to Silicon Valley to promote IoT and robotics solutions driven by AI and IBM Cloud.
Lennart Frantzell
Lennart works with blockchain, machine learning, and IBM Cloud. A Silicon Valley veteran, he is in love with Swift and Python and loves building and hacking anything on the cloud. He speaks at meetups, holds Workshops and on weekends, to avoid doing yardwork at his bungalow in Silicon Valley, attends hackathons.
Course staff
Michelle Carey
IBM Courseware Developer
Cesar Cantua
IBM Courseware Developer
Frequently asked questions
Can I take this course on Windows?
No. You must have a Mac to complete the labs in this course. You must also have experience with Swift, Xcode, and IBM Cloud.
What web browser should I use?
The Open edX platform works best with current versions of Chrome, Firefox, or Safari, or with Internet Explorer version 9 and later.
See our list of supported browsers for the most current information.
Certificate
Certificate Offered
Estimated Effort
2.5 Hours
Level
Beginner
Industries
Skills You Will Learn
Language
English
Course Code
SW0101EN