Embark on a comprehensive 8-hour journey into Natural Language Processing (NLP), exploring its fundamentals and advanced applications. Begin with the basics of NLP and Python, then delve into data preprocessing techniques, tokenization, stemming, and stop word removal. Learn about Bag of Words, TF-IDF, and machine learning concepts, including logistic regression and sentiment analysis. Apply your knowledge to build recommendation engines and chatbots using Python. Gain practical experience through hands-on projects and assignments, supplemented with quizzes to reinforce your understanding. By the end of this tutorial, acquire the skills to leverage NLP for various artificial intelligence applications in text and speech processing.