diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c4e1845d545..aadece43b30 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -53,11 +53,14 @@ Java client library to use the [Watson APIs][wdc]. ## ANNOUNCEMENTS! -### Personality Insights Deprecation -IBM® will begin sunsetting IBM Watson™ Personality Insights on 1 December 2020. For a period of one year from this date, you will still be able to use Watson Personality Insights. However, as of 1 December 2021, the offering will no longer be available. +### Personality Insights deprecation +IBM Watson™ Personality Insights is discontinued. For a period of one year from 1 December 2020, you will still be able to use Watson Personality Insights. However, as of 1 December 2021, the offering will no longer be available. As an alternative, we encourage you to consider migrating to IBM Watson™ [Natural Language Understanding](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/natural-language-understanding), a service on IBM Cloud® that uses deep learning to extract data and insights from text such as keywords, categories, sentiment, emotion, and syntax to provide insights for your business or industry. For more information, see About Natural Language Understanding. +### Visual Recognition deprecation +IBM Watson™ Visual Recognition is discontinued. Existing instances are supported until 1 December 2021, but as of 7 January 2021, you can't create instances. Any instance that is provisioned on 1 December 2021 will be deleted. + ## Before you begin * You need an [IBM Cloud][ibm-cloud-onboarding] account.