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

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
Score 7.2 out of 10
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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 Text to Speech
Score 9.1 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
Google Cloud Speech-to-TextIBM Watson Text to Speech
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 Text to Speech
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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User Ratings
Google Cloud Speech-to-TextIBM Watson Text to Speech
Likelihood to Recommend
6.6
(44 ratings)
9.1
(7 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(25 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google Cloud Speech-to-TextIBM Watson Text to Speech
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
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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
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.
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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
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
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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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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.
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IBM
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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.
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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
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.
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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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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.