--- 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 & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by IBM Watson Text to Speech but has limited features. Are you part of the IBM Watson Text to Speech team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! 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](https://www.g2.com/sellers/ibm) Discussions [IBM Watson Text to Speech Community](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-watson-text-to-speech/discuss) Languages Supported Arabic, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Emily Winchurch (Senior Product Marketer, Artificial Intelligence Products at IBM) Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by IBM Watson Text to Speech. ### Lite $0 10,000 characters per month ### Standard $0.02 USD per thousand charcters [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-watson-text-to-speech/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Google Cloud Text-to-Speech](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Cloud Text-to-Speech") Google Cloud Text-to-Speech 4.4/5(214) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-text-to-speech/reviews) [ ![Azure Text to Speech API](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Azure Text to Speech API") Azure Text to Speech API 4.2/5(94) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-text-to-speech-api/reviews) [ ![Amazon Polly](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Amazon Polly") Amazon Polly 4.4/5(80) ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-polly/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-watson-text-to-speech/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 45 real user reviews. Implementation Time 7 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") GC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/18/2019 "My Experience with IBM Watson Services ( Watson Text to Speech)" 3.5/5 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Thabi P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Thabi P.") TP Thabi P. Business Intelligence Consultant Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/13/2019 "Looking for more diverse language support in the future" 4/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech? I would like to see support for Arabic and more languages in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![VINAY K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "VINAY K.") VK VINAY K. Software Trainee Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/13/2019 "Great use of NLP to empower the tech stack and also to bring revolutionaries in the market " 3.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech? Handy to integrate with various application , other ML and AI technology Stack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech? Not supported for various language like hindi Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson Text to Speech: Follow the documentation that will be enough to implement it with the application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Bruce D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bruce D.") BD Bruce D. Senior Sales Executive Legal Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/19/2019 "It work well, intuitive enough, but was not the solution my customer decided to deploy." 3.5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson Text to Speech: Certainly worth the evaluation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") GE Verified User in Education Management Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/15/2019 "Straightforward and recursive" 4/5 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson Text to Speech: The paid version can assist with spelling, grammar, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") GF Verified User in Financial Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/20/2019 "Great first impression" 5/5 What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech? It's quite simple to set up and start using. I really liked training the machine. I see a huge potential in this feature as it could be a good solution for education purposes as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech? Some words combinations are hard to work with. The pricing could be a bit more startup-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you? Presenting some financial data and news to our mobile customers and building chatbots. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Biju R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Biju R.") BR Biju R. Head - Value Delivery and Enablement Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/16/2019 "Magic in Action.." 5/5 What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech? Simplicity at the core at the core of User experience. The Voice samples are good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech? Figure of Speech emphasis needs to be improved understanding the context of the sentence. Emotion must , must and must be a part of this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson Text to Speech: Easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you? This is much superior to simple machine language voices during editing tutorials.. Must be applied on to video based courses like Byjus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Omar S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Omar S.") OS Omar S. Analytics Advisor Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/19/2019 "Great Tool, Limited Arabic Capability" 4/5 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering IBM Watson Text to Speech: Better Support for Arabic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you? Provide Text to Speech capabilities to our chat bot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ajay K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ajay K.") AK Ajay K. Manager(Lead Consultant) Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/13/2019 "Watson Text to speech easy to use" 3/5 What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech? There were many issues we faced while using this service but the best thing is it was easiest to use than others Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech? Compared to google text to speech it has lots of lags and errors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you? I worked on it to get response from expertises services based on users query and playing the voice audio as a response Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Guillermo Marcelo L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Guillermo Marcelo L.") GL Guillermo Marcelo L. Head Of Operations (Director) Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/13/2019 "Very good experience working with IBM Watson" 4.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Watson Text to Speech? Very good tool. The IBM Watson suite is the most implemented in big banks in Argentina. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Watson Text to Speech? Nothing important to mention to remake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Watson Text to Speech solving and how is that benefiting you? The use of cognitive IVR is a very good case. We can extend 24/7 customer care availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 inviteAI Translated ## Questions about IBM Watson Text to Speech? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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