14 Financial Applications

The speech recognition and text-to-speech techniques can be applied to many aspects of life. In this chapter, we’ll focus on tracking the financial markets, but the techniques you learn here can be easily generalized and applied to your own area of interest, whatever that may be.

You’ll build three projects in this chapter: an app that reports the up-to-date stock price of any publicly traded company; a script that builds visualizations of stock prices; and an app that uses recent daily stock prices to calculate returns, run regressions, and perform detailed analyses.

As always, all scripts are available through ...

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