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My subscriptions: Speech Services

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We need to have Watson Speech To Text Service in German Language

35%-50% of the entire Europen market can be adressed by German language. Not all people know, that German langauage is not only used in Germany, bus in : Austria, Switzerland, partly Polen, Netherland, Hungaria, Slowakia, Tscheck Republic, Solveni...
about 7 years ago in Speech Services 10 Delivered

Custom TTS voice models

Customers want their own individual voices. It would be great if we could upload audio and text content to generate a custom TTS model for use by the customer's service instance. This way we let the customer do the work involved in building the da...
over 6 years ago in Speech Services 5 Delivered

Support for French-Canadian S2T and T2S. French-Canadian is different than French and using French doesn't give correct results

French-Canadian is different than French, especially when it comes to speech. the accuracy of the text generated is impacted by their accent that is different than French
8 months ago in Speech Services 1 Delivered

Allow SpeechTo Text to accept mp3 files

SpeechToText accepts WAV and FLAC. Both formats are lossless but they're also huge and not in the same format of podcasts on the web. So please add support for MP3 files to SpeechToText.
about 8 years ago in Speech Services 1 Delivered

Phoneme timings in Text to Speech service

We'd like to use the text to speech service to control an animatronic. The animatronic has a mouth and needs to manipulate its lips and jaws as it's speaking and Amazon had phoneme and viseme support which is what we were using. However, we're swi...
over 5 years ago in Speech Services 2 Delivered

Add Audio Metrics to Next Generation Speech to Text

Customer users audio metrics, specifically end times, to measure the length of audio submitted to their application by their end customers
over 3 years ago in Speech Services 0 Delivered

Add overall confidence to Next Generation Speech to Text

Provide overall confidence for a phrase in Next Generation Speech to Text. This metadata will be used by the customer to provide a measurement of audio quality to their end user.
over 3 years ago in Speech Services 0 Delivered

Add Word Confidence to Next Generation Speech to Text

Customer requires word confidence in their call analytics solution in order to inform their end-user of the audio quality of a file.
over 3 years ago in Speech Services 0 Delivered

Support STT edge use when not connected to IBM Cloud

Our WPA Automotive clients need to use speech to text when not connected to cloud. Like turn on and turn off the lights commands in the car when for example the car is in a tunnel and doesn't have internet connectivity to WPA and IBM CLoud services.
about 7 years ago in Speech Services 3 Delivered

Provide phoneme and word times for TTS

Useful for highlighting words as they play or driving avatar speech
about 8 years ago in Speech Services 0 Delivered