Azure AI Language vs. Azure AI Speech

Best suited for large organizations, availability of usage of more than one language in a specific API call. Moderately suited for small and mid sized organizations as the pricing is on a higher end

Incentivized

This service is well suited for scenarios where you need to integrate text-to-speech and/or speech-to-text into applications. Within our organisation, it is primarily used by students for development purposes to enable said functionality but is also used to provide accessibility to students who have hearing-related issues. Its multi-language support is also beneficial for our international students who have English as a second language and are therefore able to rapidly translate any text or speech that they do not understand.

Incentivized

• The data is pre configured that means the AI models that are used by features are not customizable. One needs to send data and have to use the output of the feature in our application
• Availability of customizations in order to adjust some specific requirements
• Availability of Language studio so that one can avoid coding

Incentivized

• APIs offered are very robust.
• Languages supported is far greater than most of its competitors.
• Integration with our custom apps was easy.
• Speech models that we created using neural voices were quite impressive.
• Translation services worked really well.
• Built in machine learning opens it to a lot more business use cases for the future.

Incentivized

• The application is hard to use for new users
• Data Integration is complex in nature
• For Mid - sized organizations, the pricing is on higher end

Incentivized

• More support for India regional languages and the ability to interpret Indian dialect.
• More detailed documentation with more coded examples to be available.

Incentivized

We haven't used other products. Our experience with Azure, whilst not meeting our needs this time around, was positive, educational and insightful. This was the first time that we had considered using an AI tool to manage and manipulate our data and we were unsure of the capabilities.

Incentivized

Azure Cognitive Speech Services is simple and the interface is not complicated even for those getting started with these customer services tools and the best voice recognition. Setting the platform dashboard preferences is also an easy process and with the ability to manage workflow and document management the system functions are stable and effective.

• Usage of more than one language in one specific API call
• Question Answering Feature
• Key Phrase Extraction, hence one need to read the entire phrase to understand the context

Incentivized

• It helps us catch requirements and make notes so that we don't forget when drawing out proposals.
• Also helps us with targeted pitches and helps save time.

Incentivized