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IBM Watson Text to Speech Reviews & Product Details

With Watson Text to Speech, you can generate human-like audio from written text. Improve the customer experience and engagement by interacting with users in multiple languages and tones. Increase content accessibility for users with different abilities, provide audio options to avoid distracted driving, or automate customer service interactions to increase efficiencies. Check out Watson Text to Speech in action, with our free trial: https://ibm.biz/texttospeechtrial Live demo also available - http://ibm.biz/texttospeechdemo

Seller

IBM

Discussions

IBM Watson Text to Speech Community

Languages Supported

Arabic, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)

Product Description

IBM Watson Text to Speech is a service that provides a REST API to synthesize speech audio from an input of plain text, with multiple voices, both male and female, are available across Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. Once synthesized in real-time, the audio is streamed back to the client with minimal delay and it enables developers to control the pronunciation of specific words.

Overview by

Emily Winchurch (Senior Product Marketer, Artificial Intelligence Products at IBM)

Pricing

Pricing provided by IBM Watson Text to Speech.

Lite

10,000 characters per month

Standard

$0.02 USD

per thousand charcters

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IBM Watson Text to Speech Media

IBM Watson Text to Speech Demo - Test to Speech Demo

Check out Watson Text to Speech in action, with our live demo: http://ibm.biz/texttospeechdemo

IBM Watson Text to Speech Demo - Text to Speech Demo - adjust language, dialect, neural voice

Listen to a variety of languages, dialects and voice options in our live demo: http://ibm.biz/texttospeechdemo

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prabal s.

Software Developer-CCM

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/29/2023

"IBM WATSON TEXT TO SPEECH AT EASE"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?

Ibm Watson text to speech is really faster and process everything really faster that help user pronouncing even better then any other tool so using the software is really handy and a normal person can access this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?

Ibm Watson sometimes hard to pronounce some words that is really need to take care of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul W.

Application Development Analyst

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/1/2024

"IBM Watson: Text To Speech Made Easy"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?

Integrating IBM Watson's text-to-speech API was very easy. The documentation was clear and precise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?

Nothing as of now, experience with Watson was smooth till now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ATAL B.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/9/2023

"Get speechless with IBM Watson Text to Speech."

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?

Efficient and precise speech transcription across multiple languages, catering to diverse needs such as customer self-service, aiding agents, and facilitating speech analytics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?

The Speaker Diarization functionality leaves room for improvement as it occasionally misidentifies your voice as distinct speakers while recording, presenting a significant challenge for various projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sara D.

Marketing and Advertising

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/21/2023

"Drives the success of business"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?

The conversion from text to speech is quite impressive. Its accuracy is not always perfect it delivers what is expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?

The documentation provided is helpful it benefits from being more comprehensive in some areas. Some businesses find the pricing of the paid version, with additional discouraging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

danilo t.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/5/2023

"Very useful"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?

It is really easier to create an audio verison of articles and to make possible to be used from people also when they are moving around Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?

it is in general good. I do not have so much negative to say about the program Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LISA B.

Physical Education Specialist/Athletic Director

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/10/2023

"IBM Text to Speech"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?

What is most helpful is that it can do foreign languages. As well as it us easy to utilize and implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?

The only problem it does not gave many voices. Diversity is needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in E-Learning

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/29/2023

"Professional Text to Speech Software"

3.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?

It depends. If you're using it for translating or perhaps voiceovers it's easy to curate and I like that I have the ability to adjust the speech and tone of the voice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?

Every now and then the script isn't read verbatim and it'll skip a word but that's very rare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Pharmaceuticals

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/3/2023

"IBM watson is very easy to integrate with Products like Servicenow Virtual agent, etc"

3.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?

Easy to integrate and the capability of IBM watson is very mature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?

testing of entity search is not available during integrations and we have to use native IBM watson tool for testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Divesh K.

Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/19/2022

"Good tool for Text to Speech Conversion"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?

It's easy to use and UI is awesome.

IBM Watson supports multiple languages.

Its conversion is precise and highly accurate.

It can be used to gain some insights from text form of data by converting it into speech. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?

Although its converion from text to speech is quite good still some words are not correctly pronounced.

Still, it can't be used for many languages.

Sentiments can be added to get the correct context of the text. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson Text to Speech:

IBM Watson can be used across wide areas, especially in research activities. But it's less suited in the scenario where one aims for complete perfection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have used IBM Watson for one of my research works, in which I need to get some insights from the text. Using IBM Watson given text was converted to the voice which opens another angle to perform analysis to get valuable insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.