Want to Have Your Own Personal Watson? IBM Has an API for You.

In its effort to commercialize Watson, IBM has made some of the features developed for the Jeopardy! It has now added three deep-learning-based features to this Watson API: translation, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech. These could be used to build, for example, apps or websites that offer translation or transcription services. But developers could also connect them to other Watson services that parse questions and search for answers in large amounts of text. This could lead to an app that makes it possible to search large numbers of documents with naturally spoken queries.