Amazon Polly vs. IBM Watson Text to Speech

Amazon Polly

10 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Watson Text to Speech

15 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Polly	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	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	Score9.1 out of 10	N/A	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

Pricing

Amazon Polly

IBM Watson Text to Speech

Up to 1,000 Requests: $4.00
Per Request
Up to 10,000 Requests: $4.00
Per Request

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Pricing Offerings
Amazon Polly	IBM Watson Text to Speech
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Amazon Polly	IBM Watson Text to Speech
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS No answer on this topic	IBM No answer on this topic
	Would buy again
	No answers on this topic	100% Would buy again 7 Answers
	Delivers good value for the price
	No answers on this topic	100% Delivers good value for the price 7 Answers
	Happy with the feature set
	No answers on this topic	100% Happy with the feature set 7 Answers
	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
	No answers on this topic	100% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 5 Answers
	Implementation went as expected
No answers on this topic	100% Implementation went as expected 7 Answers

User Ratings
	Amazon Polly	IBM Watson Text to Speech
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (7 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Polly	IBM Watson Text to Speech
Likelihood to Recommend	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Andrea Bardone Manager Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Jessica Daniels Information Technology Specialist Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic	IBM Add sentiment variation. Add parameter in order to change the characteristic of the voice. Use custom voice in order to tune the speaker. Incentivized Andrea Bardone Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Siddhant singh Software Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Amanda Donaldson Key Account Manager Read full review
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