Google Cloud Speech-to-Text vs. IBM Watson Speech to Text

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Speech-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
IBM Watson Speech to Text
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
IBM Watson Speech to Text supports conversion of audio and voice recordings to text in applications.N/A
Pricing
Google Cloud Speech-to-TextIBM Watson Speech to Text
Editions & Modules
Speech-to-Text V2 API
$0.016
per min
Speech-to-Text V1 API
$0.024
per min
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google Cloud Speech-to-TextIBM Watson Speech to Text
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo 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.
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Community Pulse
Google Cloud Speech-to-TextIBM Watson Speech to Text
Considered Both Products
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
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 …
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 …
IBM Watson Speech to Text
Chose IBM Watson Speech to Text
It provides more flexible plans as compared to others. These plans are affordable for Small and medium-scale enterprises. They also offer free trial. IBM Watson has wider integration support with the help of API. It has very low latency in real time transcription. Also there is …
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User Ratings
Google Cloud Speech-to-TextIBM Watson Speech to Text
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(20 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google Cloud Speech-to-TextIBM Watson Speech to Text
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
Google Cloud speech-to-text is best suited when you want to work on live calls and transcribe interviews, meetings, customer service calls, and other audio or video recordings into text format. This helps create searchable archives, generate meeting minutes, and improve accessibility for individuals with hearing impairments. The service can provide real-time captioning for live events, webinars, broadcasts, and presentations. This enhances accessibility for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing and those viewing content in noisy environments or without sound. It does not work well where the internet bandwidth is not that good; it requires a very good and strong internet connection to work well. And also where there are strong accents, especially in the Mandarin language.
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IBM
It's best for real time transcription and when the meeting is between the two speakers. Word recognition is accurate. Also it's available for various platforms, like cloud, apps, on-premise, API support. Price wise it's much better than other competitors. However, there can be still improvement in filtering noise and improving word accuracy. Language support can be increased further
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Pros
Google
  • An amazing tool which helps a lot in a meetings.
  • It's an efficient tool for improving efficiency by saving a lot of time typing. It saves at least 40-50% of our time, thus increasing efficiency.
  • Incredible accuracy with multiple accents & multiple language.
  • It takes punctuation into consideration.
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IBM
  • Low latency Real time meeting transcription
  • Meeting summary
  • Customer call summary
  • Automatic speech recognition
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Cons
Google
  • The software does occasionally get confused by confusing terminology.
  • Its web-based interface can also feel a tad hard to use compared to more appealing desktop apps.
  • I've experienced the occasional technical issue, though the provider's support team is quick to troubleshoot.
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IBM
  • More language support
  • Recognize multiple speaker when multiple people are there in meeting
  • AI summary can be improved.
  • can be better in filtering the noise
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Usability
Google
I can share insights with stakeholders in record time. And robust API connections let me pipe text into my CRM, marketing automation, and other mission-critical systems
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IBM
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Alternatives Considered
Google
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 robustness compare to other tools.
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IBM
It provides more flexible plans as compared to others. These plans are affordable for Small and medium-scale enterprises. They also offer free trial. IBM Watson has wider integration support with the help of API. It has very low latency in real time transcription. Also there is a formatting feature to Transcribe dates, times, currency etc as per the desired format
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Return on Investment
Google
  • Automating the transcription process saved time and resources compared to manual transcription.
  • Speech-to-text enabled us to make audio content accessible to a wider audience, including individuals with disabilities.
  • We gained valuable insights into customer preferences, behaviors, and sentiment by analyzing voice data.
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IBM
  • Improving productivity
  • Less communication gap
  • better customer services
  • global collaboration made easy.
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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.