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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Cloud Speech-to-Text

    Score6 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

    RingCentral Contact Center

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ARingCentral Contact Center is an AI-first contact center offers a set of cloud-based software plans with basic features including support for inbound and outbound call centers and IVR and ACD capabilities. Advanced features include analytics, real-time call reporting, workforce optimization analytics, and omni-channel integration with SMS, email, and social media platforms.N/A
    Pricing
    Google Cloud Speech-to-TextRingCentral Contact Center
    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-TextRingCentral Contact Center
    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-TextRingCentral Contact Center
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    Google
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    45 Answers
    94%
    Would buy again
    33 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    38 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    30 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    45 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    27 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    20 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    Features
    Google Cloud Speech-to-TextRingCentral Contact Center
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Google Cloud Speech-to-Text and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    -
    Ratings
    RingCentral Contact Center
    8.6
    35 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings9.430 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings8.631 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings8.231 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings9.420 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings8.716 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings9.121 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings9.910 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings7.619 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings8.619 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings7.719 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Google Cloud Speech-to-Text and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    -
    Ratings
    RingCentral Contact Center
    9.0
    34 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings9.430 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings9.020 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings9.632 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings9.229 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings8.931 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings9.030 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings8.927 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings9.613 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.315 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Google Cloud Speech-to-TextRingCentral Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.1
    (46 ratings)
    9.3
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.6
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    7.1
    (27 ratings)
    9.7
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Cloud Speech-to-TextRingCentral Contact Center
    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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    RingCentral
    RingCentral Contact Center is extremely useful for tracking employee availability and working hours, particularly for remote employees. It is also helpful to be able to share certain skills between various employees so that customers dialing in have the best chance to get in touch with the correct contact immediately. RingCentral Contact Center is not ideal for lots of outbound outreach, particularly due to the phone number not coming in with the user's extension (and in our case, the number is an 800 number and looks more like spam), but for incoming calls it is very useful. The difference between a cold transfer and trying to conference someone on before you transfer is not always clear. Many people in the company often make mistakes, such as not being able to conference on the contact before transferring or accidentally hanging up on the conference, also affecting the others on the line.
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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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    RingCentral
    • Reliability: Our previous service was prone to outages, RingCentral Contact Center has been rock solid as long as we've used it.
    • Integration: Our IT team was able to build a custom RingCentral Contact Center dashboard on our website for our salespeople to manage inbound/ outbound calling. From there we were able to send call data directly into activities in our ERP (Acumatica).
    • Ease of use: It works well whether in the office or WFH (which many employees do regularly.
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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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    RingCentral
    • I have not experienced it firsthand, but I have heard that their customer service is hard to reach and to resolve issues.
    • Verification to login can be annoying with the number of steps required.
    • I do receive spam calls through the number, which i wish were filtered out.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    RingCentral
    If we haven't used the contact center for support is because the service is so good that make us not need to use it very often. However, I guess our IT team has found some useful features on it for system implementation, automation, and updates that have helped them to keep providing us with the right support as needed.
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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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    RingCentral
    It's a really intuitive platform. All the buttons and sections are almost exactly where you would expect them to be. Navigating the platform is fairly easy, even for folks who have not used it before. I can usually just tell my colleagues to "go to the settings tab and you'll see the audio settings" and they are able to take it from there.
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    Support Rating
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    RingCentral
    We honestly did not need much support but whatever we wanted was resolved via email and that experience was nice but took a bit of time
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    RingCentral
    It was really straightforward to get our phone number ported over and start using the platform. The agent walked us through the steps and we were able to configure everything ourselves. Much easier to setup than some of the other platforms
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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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    RingCentral
    All of them are good choices, but if you're looking for something where all of these are included, it must needs be RingCentral Contact Center, All in one communication tool, don't worry about communication outages, RingCentral Contact Center updates in out of office schedules, if you're looking for "The Experience" RingCentral is the best choice.
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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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    RingCentral
    • With RingCentral Contact Center we were able to connect with our customers. The feature that allows the call to be sent to the first available rep ensured that this happened.
    • Also, my favorite feature is the call recording and transcription feature. This allowed me to get the customer's emails without asking them to repeat if I missed them the first time. Hence, happier customers and more meetings.
    • RingCentral Contact Center also made it very easy to set up a mailbox for customers to leave messages and reassure them that they've connected with the right person.
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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.