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IBM Watson Text to Speech

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What is IBM Watson Text to Speech?

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…

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What is IBM Watson Text to Speech?

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…

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Jessica Daniels | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are converting written texts into natural audio. IBM Watson Text to Speech offers speech in a wide range of language variations which boosts customer engagement since we teach a lot of people despite the language barrier.
  • 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.
  • For years, I have never had issues while using IBM Watson Text to Speech on my end.
IBM Watson Text to Speech makes it easy and effective to access our system for customers and employees. Oral documentation has never been hectic since this solution simplifies the entire preparation process.
March 27, 2022

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Siddhant singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I'm a huge fan of Watson Text to Speech, it's a language-agnostic API Service that converts written text into natural-sounding audio. I can integrate it into my apps and websites so that my users can enjoy a superior user experience. I was looking for a solution that would allow me to easily add audio capabilities to my applications and I found this. IBM Watson Text to Speech is a cloud-based text to speech service that allows you to generate audio in a variety of dialects and voices. The service is currently available in English, French, German, Spanish, Korean, Arabic, Mandarin, Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, and Brazilian Portuguese.
  • Generate audio in various languages.
  • Easy to integrate in any platform.
  • Sometimes it mispronounced some words.
  • Lack of sentiments.
  • Need to work on accuracy.
If you're looking for a high-quality reading of your book, magazine, website, or blog, you can use the IBM Watson Text to Speech API to create a voice-over with a variety of language and voice options.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
We have clients that are all over the world and we were looking for a program with a voice to improve customer experience and engagement by interacting with users in their native language. This is exactly what we needed to use and it helps our current customers communicate with their audience.
  • Increase accessibility
  • Automate Customer Service interactions
  • Up to date system
  • User experience
  • Explain how data is protected
  • Support response time
One of the main features we love about this program is the accessibility to use on many different devices and platforms. It makes life so much easier to take away the language barrier and that is what IBM Watson Text to Speech does best! New updated instructional videos might be helpful to continue to be provided.
Amanda Donaldson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use IBM Watson Text to Speech on a daily basis to convert written texts into audio in an extended range of language variations. It makes it easy to engage with customers in their native language.
  • Supports a wide array of language variations.
  • Audio options avoid distractions when performing other tasks.
  • Cloud based solution that offers robust cloud security.
  • Self-service capabilities.
  • Based on my experience, IBM Watson Text to Speech is flawless since it suits all our needs.
Ever since we implemented IBM Watson Text to Speech, it has never been hectic to engage with customers in their native language since it is possible to transform written texts to audio.
Jay Thakkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Watson Text to Speech is used in our company to create chatbots. We had created a chatbot through IBM Watson Text to Speech. We can analyze voice instructions with it as well. We use IBM Watson Text to Speech to solve a variety of wide-ranging problems. Most websites today come with a voice-based chatbot which is helpful for client convenience.
  • The Documentation is well managed
  • Pronunciation is good.
  • Variety of languages support
  • Processing time can reduce
  • Little complex API structure
  • Few time accuracy is not matching
We are developing a website for clients where we are placing the functionalities of a voice-based chatbot that will allow users to chat by speaking. Documentation of IBM Watson Text to Speech is easy to understand.
Andrea Bardone | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The business problem was read a legal notice to the customer in order to stipulate the contract automatically. We need also other IBM Watson services: speech to text: in order to analyze human response tone analyzer: in order to retrieve the sentiment of the customer The join of all IBM Watson services was a great solution for our case.
  • Pronunciation
  • Many languages supported.
  • Many voice supported.
  • Add sentiment variation.
  • Add parameter in order to change the characteristic of the voice.
  • Use custom voice in order to tune the speaker.
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
With our online school software we have decided to opt for IBM Watson Text to Speech and it has saved us a lot of time and effort with regards to explaining modules where there's no video tutorials, I love using Alison(The American English Female voice) amongst the others simply because we are able to change Alison's speech and expressions using the SSML & the Voice Transformational SSML tool.
  • Allows to change voice expressions
  • Allows changing of speed in a sentence and not the entire paragraph.
  • We could use with other voices from different dialect.
  • Try to allow a mixture of languages.
IBM Watson Text to Speech is suitable for personal use and not for commercial use, I love the fact that it's a pay as you use product, you can you can easily download the Text-to-Speech audio files and if you are an individual that loves listening rather than reading or recording their voice then this is a perfect software for you.
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