TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Cloud Speech-to-Text

    Score5.9 out of 10
    N/ASpeech-to-Text on Google Cloud is a tool used to convert speech into text using an API powered by Google’s AI technologies. The vendor states users can transcribe content in real time or from stored files; deliver a better user experience in products through voice commands; and, gain insights from customer interactions to improve service.

    $0.02

    per min

    Pricing
    Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    Editions & Modules
    Speech-to-Text V2 API
    $0.016
    per min
    Speech-to-Text V1 API
    $0.024
    per min
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsSpeech-to-Text V1 API V1 offers data residency for multi region only. Models include short, long, phone call, and video. V1 does not include audit logging. New customers get $300 in free credits and 60 minutes for transcribing and analyzing audio free per month, not charged against your credits. Speech-to-Text V2 API V2 offers data residency for multi and single region. Models include short, long, telephony, video, and Chirp. V2 does include audit logging and support for customer managed encryption keys.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    Google low latency streaming api seems to be working best when compared to other cloud-supporting tools as this will help in realtime transcription for customer interactions. while comparing azure and amazon the google support more than 125 languages and ascents as we work with …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    Earlier we were completely reliant on text pad or notepad, where we used to manually capture the information, which seems to be very hectic for the long-running meeting, because holding the information and capturing them and redocumenting it is very big process and it involves …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    They just remind me of each other. Whenever I have a question, whether for personal or for professional reasons, I take out my smartphone, click the Gemini app, and then click the mic to ask my question and have the answer read back to me. I love Googles AI System.
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    Firefly is a great notetaker application that plus into meetings and organizes the data. However it comes presctured while the Google Cloud Speech-to-Text application you can better organized the data. Then have the option to plug it into other platforms to further organize the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    It delivered high accuracy in accented and noisy environments. Regarding its language support, it offers a variety of languages and dialects. Its's Api's are well-documented and easily integrated with our GCP-based stack. Also, its deployment is fast, and it is cost-effective. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    One major setback is the integration of multiple languages, where Google has support for more than 120 languages, and Amazon only supports approximately 30 languages. Regarding the transcription behaviour, Google Translate is very accurate, but Amazon Translate sometimes spells …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    Descript is definetly less accurate than Google Cloud tool, while Google Cloud Speech-to-Text does have some troubles with overlapping and background noises, it still performs better than Descript. However Descript has some video editing functions which are not available in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    Otter is good for simple note taking and its UI is quite simple. But it seriously lacks in providing appropriate transcription as it is less accurate with Indian accents and being unresponsive in real time transcriptions. On the other hand Google Cloud Speech-to-Text excels in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    Google Cloud Speech-to-Text is more recommended by clients and also based on our research, we found that this is the best option for our application.
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    We use Google Speech to Text on the recommendation of a partner who uses it, in fact we do not evaluate other applications such as Amazon Transcript or similar
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    Google Cloud Speech to Text has a significantly cleaner and easier-to-use User Interface. If the user is already familiar with the Google Cloud product suite, then onboarding with this software will be an extremely smooth process. If a user has previously used other …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    Much better and more accurate than integrated Microsoft dictate or translate.
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    I didn't see other options that are even competitive with using Google's Cloud Speech-to-Text in terms of cost and reliability.
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    Not applicable.
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    I have not used other software at this time. But this is a great software and completely worth using.
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    I like Google Cloud Speech-to-Text the most when it comes to other apps I have used so far. It have reduced my work, saved lot of time and made me less stress in meetings. It has also helped us in taking requirement gathering, knowledge transfer important notes to further …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    While both Speechify and Google Speech-to-text do the job, certain elements that I find missing on Speechify are: it only works on Desktop with Windows OS, the customizations aspect is missing, there is no mobile app support (people these days want everything on their mobile …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    I've also trialed IBM Watson Speech to Text for similar use cases. While both are highly capable, I find the Google Cloud Speech-to-Text software's accuracy and integrations to be a cut above.​ Harnessing Google's speech recognition prowess has elevated our firm's value …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    Google Cloud Speech-to-Text outperformed its competitors significantly in terms of accuracy, surpassing any other product available. Additionally, its support for multiple languages was unrivaled in the market. Moreover, for clients with robust bandwidth, Google Cloud …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    Office 365 word document text to speech engine.
    This is popular among office users, but less relevant for mobile devices.
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    1. It's an efficient tool for improving efficiency by saving a lot of time in typing. 2. It saves at least 40-50% of our time, thus increasing efficiency. The amazing thing I liked about it is the accuracy with multiple accents & multiple languages. 3. It also takes …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    I did not compare to other providers.
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    The accuracy of Google Cloud Speech-to-Text is much better than any other tool. It has better API integration with 3rd party tools. The transcription is on at real-time basis with the best efficiency. It has good language support from across the globe. It provides better noise …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    Google Cloud Speech-to-Text is better than these other services. The main driver is the cost for the service and what you get, the value proposition is very good. Also, the scalability of Google Cloud Speech-to-Text is great, so that down the line, as our needs change and …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    45 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    38 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    45 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    27 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    Best Alternatives
    Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    Small Businesses
    Dragon Speech Recognition
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Verint Speech and Text Analytics
    Score8.4 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (46 ratings)
    Usability
    7.1
    (27 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Real-time meeting notes for the smaller group audience. Strong language coverage of over 125+ languages. Handles mobile phone recordings and environmental noise effectively. Fast transcription turnaround also supports phrases, which improves industry-specific terminology. Generating QA/compliance audit logs. Also builds the sentences with accurate punctuation and sentence boundaries. It has vast global support centers whose primary focus in resolving customer issues and help multinational engineering in building great products
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    Google
    • So, first of all it gives the answer or translates in real time which is awesome.
    • It has speaker diarization, which detects who spoke each segment. This is a great feature because it can track the number of people as well.
    • It has an automatic punctuation system that detects each punctuation mark, such as a dot and a comma, and places it in the text.
    • Lastly, it offers a variety of language translations, providing a global platform for interaction with people from different countries.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    Google
    • Integration outside of the google eco system is challenging here.
    • Google Cloud Speech-to-Text works only with active internet connection if the internet bandwidth is low it effect the transcription process and can lead to data inaccuracy.
    • In terms of the pricing also this is at higher range which all the companies cannot afford like small scale organisation if they would like to use the tool they would look over the price to make the decision. Reducing the price can increase the product usage more
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Usability
    Google
    The reasoning behind my 10 is that the UI is very intuitive; I didn't require any formal training to use it. Google's speech-to-text is not just a conversion tool; it helps automate mundane tasks, saves time, and has an almost human-like understanding.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Google Cloud Speech-to-Text outperformed its competitors significantly in terms of accuracy, surpassing any other product available. Additionally, its support for multiple languages was unrivaled in the market. Moreover, for clients with robust bandwidth, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text offered real-time transcription capabilities, enabling users to transcribe live audio streams with minimal delay.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Return on Investment
    Google
    • It reduced our budget for assistants who transcribed files manually
    • It speeds up the process, because we can have a transcriptions straight after the interviews
    • It increased accuracy, because AI makes the transcriptions for every second, and you can find the words which were said at specific time.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots

    Google Cloud Speech-to-Text Screenshots

    Screenshot of audio transcription creation -  Using the Speech-to-Text API from within the Cloud Console by creating an audio transcription is done in just a few steps. It can transcribe short, long, and streaming audio.Screenshot of creating subtitles for videos using AI -  Transcriptions with captions and subtitles can be added to existing content or in real time to streaming content. Google's video transcription model can be used for indexing or subtitling video and/or multispeaker content and uses similar machine learning technology as YouTube does for video captioning.Screenshot of adding Speech-to-Text to apps - The video pictures covers how to add AI to an application without extensive machine learning model experience. The pretrained Speech-to-Text API lets users enable AI for applications.Screenshot of Language, speech, text, and translation with Google Cloud API - The pictures displays a section of Google training course, where learners use the Speech-to-Text API to transcribe an audio file into a text file, translate with the Google Cloud Translation API, and create synthetic speech with Natural Language AI.