Amazon Polly vs. IBM Watson Text to Speech

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Polly
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Amazon Polly turns text into lifelike speech, allowing users to create applications that talk, and build new categories of speech-enabled products. Polly's Text-to-Speech (TTS) service uses deep learning technologies to synthesize natural sounding human speech. With dozens of lifelike voices across a broad set of languages, users can build speech-enabled applications that work in different countries.
$4
Per Request
IBM Watson Text to Speech
Score 9.0 out of 10
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IBM Watson Text to Speech is an API cloud service that enables users to convert written text into natural-sounding audio in a variety of languages and voices within an existing application or within Watson Assistant. It can be used to give a brand a voice and interact with users in their native language. Increase accessibility for users with different abilities, provide audio options to avoid distracted driving, or automate customer service interactions to eliminate hold times.N/A
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Amazon PollyIBM Watson Text to Speech
Editions & Modules
Up to 1,000 Requests
$4.00
Per Request
Up to 10,000 Requests
$4.00
Per Request
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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IBM Watson Text to Speech
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I've never been a fan of the robotic voice of text-to-speech tools and I've always thought they sounded flat and bland. Until I tried IBM Watson Text to Speech, that is. This service uses advanced deep learning techniques to synthesize speech output in natural-sounding voices. …
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9.1
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User Testimonials
Amazon PollyIBM Watson Text to Speech
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
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IBM
I advise Watson for all scenarios where you need AI to speak. I don't use this for this goal, but I suppose that could be a good solution for tourism and travel: companies in the hospitality industry can make it easier for people to
get around and offer tours in numerous languages, all at the same time. In telecommunications, could be used to create customized messaging that the caller can use with customers, and it can generate words from a customer’s records that are read to them in a professional and friendly voice. It's very good for English, for Italian is a little "robotic" but the pronunciation is right.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
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IBM
  • Improve customer experience and engagement.
  • Offers both on-premise and cloud deployments.
  • Automate requests and transactions in our agency.
  • Voice recognition.
  • Allows me to choose dialect which help select accent of the selected speaker.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
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IBM
  • Add sentiment variation.
  • Add parameter in order to change the characteristic of the voice.
  • Use custom voice in order to tune the speaker.
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IBM
I've never been a fan of the robotic voice of text-to-speech tools and I've always thought they sounded flat and bland. Until I tried IBM Watson Text to Speech, that is. This service uses advanced deep learning techniques to synthesize speech output in natural-sounding voices. I was blown away by how good the voices were that I've been using it for personal stuff like journaling and brainstorming sessions. And I'm definitely going to be using this for podcasting and my YouTube channel.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
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IBM
  • Enhance rapid and convenient customer interaction.
  • Client issues are easy to solve by allocating critical info in their native language.
  • Automating requests and transactions reduce hold time which improves customer satisfaction.
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