Google Cloud Speech-to-Text vs. Zoom Contact Center

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
Score 6.7 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
Zoom Contact Center
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Zoom Contact Center helps businesses deliver prompt, accurate, and highly personalized customer experiences that drive loyalty. It includes intelligent self-service and routing, a unified communications and contact center, and video optimized high-touch engagements.
$828
per year per user
Pricing
Google Cloud Speech-to-TextZoom Contact Center
Editions & Modules
Speech-to-Text V2 API
$0.016
per min
Speech-to-Text V1 API
$0.024
per min
Essentials
$69
per month (billed annually) per user
Premium
$99
per month (billed annually) per user
Elite
$149
per month (billed annually) per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google Cloud Speech-to-TextZoom 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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Features
Google Cloud Speech-to-TextZoom Contact Center
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
-
Ratings
Zoom Contact Center
8.2
23 Ratings
2% below category average
Agent dashboard00 Ratings8.223 Ratings
Validate callers00 Ratings7.820 Ratings
Outbound response00 Ratings7.719 Ratings
Call forwarding00 Ratings8.418 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.417 Ratings
Warm transfer00 Ratings8.423 Ratings
Predictive dialing00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.420 Ratings
REST APIs00 Ratings8.317 Ratings
Call scripts00 Ratings7.719 Ratings
Call tracking00 Ratings8.023 Ratings
Multichannel integration00 Ratings8.621 Ratings
CRM software integration00 Ratings8.217 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
-
Ratings
Zoom Contact Center
8.3
22 Ratings
0% above category average
Inbound call routing00 Ratings8.521 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings8.619 Ratings
Recording00 Ratings8.620 Ratings
Quality management00 Ratings8.320 Ratings
Call analytics00 Ratings8.021 Ratings
Historical reporting00 Ratings8.421 Ratings
Live reporting00 Ratings7.821 Ratings
Customer surveys00 Ratings8.217 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.918 Ratings
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User Ratings
Google Cloud Speech-to-TextZoom Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
6.0
(44 ratings)
8.0
(30 ratings)
Usability
7.2
(25 ratings)
8.2
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google Cloud Speech-to-TextZoom 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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Zoom
This tool has allowed us to identify each user's needs using different communication channels. It has also enabled us to establish a direct point of contact with Zoom's technical support by allowing us to document and escalate each situation requiring specialized assistance, which is the main reason we chose Zoom. I would recommend it to any colleague or company because it offers a wide variety of tools, and now with AI integration, the level of service has improved significantly.
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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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Zoom
  • The dashboards are fantastic because we can see if an agent isn't logged in or if there are a lot of customers waiting in the queues—we've never had that visibility before. We didn't have data to look back and see if we had enough staff to support the load. That helps us so much, especially when we're budgeting for the next Festival.
  • The callback function saved us during last year’s festival. We had a street-wide internet outage during one of our busiest periods. But, in the time it took to fix the issue, Zoom Contact Center lined up callbacks. It was all so smooth. We didn’t need to trawl through voicemails or miss any queries - we could return everyone’s call within 30 minutes.
  • Integration with our Zoom Phone configuration provides a seamless experience when transferring calls to those not on the Contact Centre. We can do a Warm Transfer, too, so it's a very professional experience.
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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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Zoom
  • Too many bugs in logging, a consumer hangup may result in Overflow to disconnect, which is not even a behavior in our phone system; Zoom acknowledged the bug, took months to implement a fix, and it's still not fixed (TS0053591)
  • Logs are in two places, for instance, if a patient complains that they called 10x and no one called them back, we have to look at the logs in Zoom CC and Zoom Phone to get the full story of what happened. Concatenating log files is something I haven't done in at least 10 years, so strange that Zoom needs this.
  • Zoom Contact Center still has "bolt-on" feeling to it, needs to be more integrated—see logging issue above.
  • Reports are underwhelming and not easy to get to the data you need, which is different from the administration part of the contact center itself which is so fantastic. It feels like reports were designed by a different dev group, headed by someone who probably used to work at Mitel for years or somewhere where everything is cumbersome.
  • Zoom Glossary is large but still does not have all terms, which defeats the purpose of a glossary.
  • General Zoom support is now slow and underwhelming. It used to be fast and good, now they take forever and ask you the same questions multiple times and don't seem to fully understand answers. Feels like some McKinsey consultant decision from the 90s: ship support overseas to cheapen the cost and incentivize customers to pay for some higher tier of support where they will actually get support. I'd expect this from competitors, but disappointed to see it happen at Zoom. Our actual zoom support reps are very good, and this comment is about the general "contact Zoom support" inquiry form.
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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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Zoom
It is rare to have to explain a lot to a user on how to use Zoom Contact Center. It makes sense, provides plenty of options without being overbearing, and we have rarely had issues come back that I need to regularly change or update to accommodate things like bugs or design issues
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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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Zoom
It is a good product that fits our needs, we considered using the Contact Center despite the fact of still lacking important capabilities (we think it is till s in its "toddler" age) because we see how rapidly Zoom builds their products and add functionality to it, and because we already are using Zoom Meetings, Phone and others, it just makes sense to use Contact Center because of the potential capabilities and integration; it just made sense, and so far so good, but only time will tell.
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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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Zoom
  • We were able to cut our communication costs significantly and gain features we could have only dreamed of prior.
  • The contact center platform is head and shoulders above some of their competitors. This allows our team to quickly assist our customers with their questions and concerns.
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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.

Zoom Contact Center Screenshots

Screenshot of the video-optimized CCaaSScreenshot of the Zoom Workspace video room experienceScreenshot of the analytics used to optimize contact center performance