--- title: IBM Watson Text to Speech Reviews meta_title: 'IBM Watson Text to Speech Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 45 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how IBM Watson Text to Speech works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.2 review_count: 45 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: Synthetic Media url: https://www.g2.com/categories/synthetic-media --- # IBM Watson Text to Speech Reviews **Vendor:** IBM **Category:** [Text to Speech Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/text-to-speech) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 45 ## About IBM Watson Text to Speech 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 ## IBM Watson Text to Speech Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find IBM Watson Text to Speech helpful, especially for **creating audio scripts** effectively as creators. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the tool to be **too expensive** , making it impractical for individual users in India. (1 reviews) ## IBM Watson Text to Speech Reviews ### 1. IBM Text to Speech **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** LISA B. | Physical Education Specialist/Athletic Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2023 **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. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** The only problem it does not gave many voices. Diversity is needed. **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is solving reading problems in my students. It is increasing motivation and self esteem. ### 2. Professional Text to Speech Software **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2023 **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 **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. **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's a tool we currently use in-house for compliance and recertification courses. It's convenient when the script is audible instead of having to read. ### 3. IBM watson is very easy to integrate with Products like Servicenow Virtual agent, etc **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** Easy to integrate and the capability of IBM watson is very mature **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. **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** Servicenow does not have native capability of text to speech and IBM watson is mature enough to integrate and extend the capabilities of servicenow ### 4. my experience was doing tests for text to speech which had a high precision, **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Miguel Angel C. | Data Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** The voice quality is very good to produce security, comfort and does not bother or sound robotic for the person who listens to it, I like that their voice and their tones are friendly and smooth. In addition, another thing that I like is the wide range of characters they give to test before obliging to pay for the service. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** its accuracy is sometimes not what is expected but it covers very well what was expected within the range of business, for me its virtues sn superior to the things that I dislike of the tool **Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson Text to Speech:** if recommended for its versatility and quality **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** as a route guide for transportation in automatic accessibility mode for passengers and they know where they are going and how much is needed to arrive in time and distance. ### 5. Transformable Voice - interesting **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sunny K. | Sr. Data Scientist, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** Text narration technology is not new but the transformable voice narration was very interesting. I think that technology would be very useful in many applications like robotics, media content building, etc. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** It looks like there are limited language supports like English, French, Italian, and Japanese. I know that technologies cannot be invented at once but I feel sorry of the limited language support whenever I encountered a fascinating text/speech technology **Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson Text to Speech:** Their transformable voice narration technology is very fascinating **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am currently working on the text analytics and its application can provide some business insights from the analysis results. If I can take advantage of this IBM Watson Text to Speech, I may be able to consider the better way to provide the text analysis results such as voice instruction not just as text information ### 6. Review for IBM Watson Text to Speech **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** The product is multidimensional, The inbuilt capabilities make the work easier. The expressiveness feature makes the product more friendly to the user on the consumer side. Also, the customization feature helps to load in uncommon words as inputs. Overall it's a solid product for anyone using text to speech synthesis. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** The price of the product is a bit on the expensive side, which is totally fine if a large organization uses it for its purposes. Also, it would be nice if the product could provide native dialects as an inbuilt feature. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson Text to Speech:** It is a solid product in its base form. The user experience is nice and healthy. The various inbuilt features make it more user-friendly and robust to use. It's easy to integrate with existing environments and worked seamlessly in our case. **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a small company, we were just trying out the features of the product. The basic tests consisted of inputting text excerpts from various website and measuring the accuracy of the product. Secondary tests consisted of inserting texts from books to sample out audios so that it could be used as an audiobook. Course materials developed within the company were uploaded to the company webpage and other platforms as audio/video files, to further the cause and business of E-learning. ### 7. My Experience with IBM Watson Services ( Watson Text to Speech) **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** The best part of IBM text to speech is the ease of setting it up, With IBM detailed documentation its pretty easy to understand how the service works, what are the key concepts that one needs to understand for customising for each specific requirement using SSML **What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** Well to be very blunt, there not much that i dislike about Watson, there are situations where in some times the accuracy and the response latency are an issues. Along with the amount of languages that Watson TTS supports as of now are minimal. **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** Watson TTS has been great companion when it has come to solving issues in IoT solutions, with its easy to integrate and Client SDKs, I have used them in IoT solution where There is need of Computer to human conversation like chatbots , Waring Alerts mechanisms. ### 8. Looking for more diverse language support in the future **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thabi P. | Business Intelligence Consultant, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** I am reviewing the IBM Watson text to speech app that I first used almost a year ago. I like that a variety of languages were supported, largely English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese. And I liked the expressive voice which was less robotic than the others. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** I would like to see support for Arabic and more languages in the future. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson Text to Speech:** I have tried the text to speech and speech to text programs, but you need to be careful which languages you are catering your application to. **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Text to Speech application interfaces well with many customer service applications. ### 9. Great use of NLP to empower the tech stack and also to bring revolutionaries in the market **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** VINAY K. | Software Trainee, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** Handy to integrate with various application , other ML and AI technology Stack **What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** Not supported for various language like hindi **Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson Text to Speech:** Follow the documentation that will be enough to implement it with the application **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problem Solved : Creating multiple graphs and instant reply for the complex sales queries like sales for the day ,sales for the particular client etc Benefits : Created a voice based dashboard for the sales People that help them to find the complex queries in seconds ### 10. It work well, intuitive enough, but was not the solution my customer decided to deploy. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bruce D. | Senior Sales Executive, Legal Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** Telephony is excellent, although I am not sure if that is the correct word to use. I also like the feature rich environment. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** I think it was cost prohibitive for a Public Defenders office, and there were a number of other solutions that could do the job. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson Text to Speech:** Certainly worth the evaluation. **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were taking audio transcripts and transferring them into text for deeper evaluation, case strategy, etc. ### 11. Straightforward and recursive **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** Adding new phases was easy The program rarely crashed Watson is a quick learner **What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** My colleagues who used it for their presentation talked about colloquialisms and sarcasm being hard to differentiate. Given it is for English, where intonation and vocal changes matter, IBM Watson has done a great job. It does not quite know how to deal with all the questions our clients might ask, or to polite get the conversation back in line. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson Text to Speech:** The paid version can assist with spelling, grammar, etc. **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had a chatbot set up for a local nonprofit. It is entirely beneficial for someone to talk highly of their own business. ### 12. Great Tool, Limited Arabic Capability **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Omar S. | Analytics Advisor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** Extremely Easy to use API with a wide set of features that allowed us to integrate with various platforms and applications **What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** The arabic support and the ability to understand arabic is very limited at this point making it very hard to integrate in our region **Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson Text to Speech:** Better Support for Arabic **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provide Text to Speech capabilities to our chat bot ### 13. Natural sound and pretty good translator **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** Voice quality is natural and sounds very good. The translation itself has a fairly wide recognition range. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** Translation in the product is not always completely accurate **Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson Text to Speech:** Recommended for multiple application types and diversity and quality of speech. **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** The product was used in testing for translating documents we had into speech that were in 2 languages. ### 14. voice driven application **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Wireless | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** its easy to use service with-in IBM cloud , making it easy to connect with your application **What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** nothing as such to be disliked or improved currently **Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson Text to Speech:** make more easier to use for building mobile application **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are building mobile app where voice notes are important and text- we are using speech diction to text and text to speech to read out the notes. ### 15. User-friendly, resources are great but some improvements are needed **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** Resources are useful and the tool is easy to use. For international consulting companies, language support can be beneficial, too. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** There may be a high variance in accuracy among trials. **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are a text analytics company, operating in the BFSI sector and we work on developing customer experience evaluation products. We tried IBM Watson to integrate with CX reviews analytics application. ### 16. Excellent tool to enhance your application chat **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** It is easy to use and you can find useful examples that give you the foundation to integrate this functionality within your application. **What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** Due to the browser restrictions (and for security purpose) sometimes the feature looks like it is not working. That could be confusing for the user. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson Text to Speech:** Before starting your own implementation go through the examples IBM is providing, you can save a lot of time. **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** I integrated this feature into a chatbot implementation. Giving an additional value to the application and allowing the user to interact with the application in a more natural way. ### 17. Watson Text To Speech **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** accurate conversion and minimal latenxy **What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** Nothing so far . seems to perform reasonably well not sure how it would work in multithreaded environment. I had used it for mobile application development. **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** using it for NAO Robot to implement core banking use case. ### 18. Great Tool! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** It's ability to understand and translate what I'm saying instantly **What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** There are some typos once in awhile but overall is a great product **Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson Text to Speech:** really get to know the product and it's features before implementing into business life **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** Recruiting. Things are done a little faster ### 19. Flexible and accurate **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** Able to integrate text to speech on my website and bot platforms **What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** Hard to integrate into HTTP and port softwares, but is valuable **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost to set up isnt that steep and ROI is pretty short which makes the T-to-S a great investment wherever a company sees fit ### 20. Best voiceover or natural conversation tone **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** Natural conversation tone and best persona, have a varieties of voice tone **What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** Little complex api structure, less support in documentation and npm packages. **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been using IBM watson Text to speech APi in google home/ google assistant voice tone (voice persona). ### 21. Good Service **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** We will get always good service and quick response **What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech?** Sometimes we will get on hold call and late answer. **What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you?** Always call with care ## IBM Watson Text to Speech Discussions - [What is IBM Watson Text to Speech used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ibm-watson-text-to-speech-used-for) - 1 comment - [View IBM Watson Text to Speech pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-watson-text-to-speech/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-14+06%3A02%3A35+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=a8c071f1-6b21-4541-8032-860f3f96c459&secure%5Btoken%5D=c6d181c8f789785acdcf3fda6ac65cf86459f03de3aaa849f0f1d75ee086dbba&format=llm_user) ## IBM Watson Text to Speech Features **Additional Functionality** - Tagging - Natural Language Processing - Data Extraction - Multi-Language - Predictive Analytics - Drag & Drop - Speech Recognition - Reporting/Analytics - Data Storage Management - Virtual Personal Assistant (VPA) - AI Copilot - Customer Segmentation - Collaboration Tools - Data Import/Export - Generative AI - For eCommerce - Role-Based Permissions - Customizable Branding - Search/Filter - Monitoring - Document Management - API - Data Visualization - Trend Analysis - Machine Learning - Access Controls/Permissions - Alerts/Escalation - Performance Metrics - Real-Time Data - Third-Party Integrations - Mobile App - Multiple Data Sources - For Sales Teams/Organizations - Sentiment Analysis - Activity Dashboard - Chatbot - Workflow Automation **Additional Functionality** - Code Generation - Text to Image - Generative AI - API - Natural Language Processing - Virtual Characters and Avatars - Content Generation - Personalization and Recommendation - Conditional Generation - Transformer Model - Automated Image & Video Editing - Interactive and Co-Creative Systems - Text Summarization - Data Augmentation - Variation Autoencoder Models - Adversarial Training - Transfer Learning and Fine-tuning - Simulation and Scenario Generation - Creative Design - AI Copilot - Prompt Engineering - Foundation Model **Integration** - Application Integration - Real-Time Streaming - Integration - Integration **Audio** - Accents - Voice Cloning - Range of Tones - Languages **Speech Output** - Volume - Pitch - Speed - Pronunciation - Accent - Emotion - Speaking Styles - Speech Output - Speech Output - Speech Output - Speech Output - Speech Output - Speech Output - Speech Output **Video** - Closed Captions - Avatar Quality - Custom Avatars - Video Editing Capabilities **Audio Format** - Natural Sounding Voices - Audio Format Flexibility - Audio Optimization - Audio Format - Custom Voices - Multi-Voice **Image** - Text to Image - Realism **Text** - Text Optimization - Range of Sentiments **Generative AI** - AI Text-to-Speech - Gen AI - Generative AI **Additional Functionality** - For Online Learning - Grammar Check - Audio Editor - For Sales Teams/Organizations - Analytics - WCAG Compliance - Content Library - Publishing/Sharing - Chatbot - Content Creation - Data Management - AI Copilot - Speech Recognition - Collaboration Tools - Text Analysis - Phonetic Variation Detection - Voice Generator - SSML Support - Transcripts/Chat History - For Marketers - Speech-to-Text Analysis - Project Management - Multi-Language - Machine Translation - Natural Language Processing - API **Platform** - Collaboration - Speed of Generation **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization - AI Text-to-Image - AI Text-to-Speech - AI Image-to-Text - AI Text-to-Video - AI Text-to-3D - AI Text-to-Music ## Top IBM Watson Text to Speech Alternatives - [Google Cloud Text-to-Speech](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-text-to-speech/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (221 reviews) - [Azure Text to Speech API](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-text-to-speech-api/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (93 reviews) - [Amazon Polly](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-polly/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (80 reviews)