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Introducing Cloud Natural Language API, Speech API open beta and our West Coast region expansion

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Posted by Apoorv Saxena, Cloud Natural Language and Translate API Product Manager, Dan Aharon, Cloud Speech API Product Manager and Dave Stiver, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform

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Sentiment Analysis: Understand the overall sentiment of a block of text

Entity Recognition: Identify the most relevant entities for a block of text and label them with types such as person, organization, location, events, products and media

Syntax Analysis: Identify parts of speech and create dependency parse trees for each sentence to reveal the structure and meaning of text

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Google’s Cloud Natural Language API has shown it can accelerate our offering in the natural language understanding area and is a viable alter native to a custom model we had built for our initial use case. - Dan Nelson, Head of Data, Ocado TechnologyCloud Speech API

HyperConnect, a video chat app with over 50 million downloads in over 200 countries, uses a combination of our Cloud Speech and Translate API to automatically transcribe and translate conversations between people who speak different languages.

VoiceBase, a leader in speech analytics as a service, uses Speech API to let developers surface insights and predict outcomes from call recordings.

Word hints: custom words or phrases by context can be added to API calls to improve recognition. Useful for both command scenarios (e.g., a smart TV listening for “rewind” and “fast-forward” when watching a movie) and adding new words to the dictionary (e.g., recognizing names that may not be common in a specific language)

Asynchronous calling: the API has been substantially simplified with new asynchronous calls that make developing voice-enabled apps easier and faster

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