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Speech Services

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Permanent way for increasing resources for speech-cr-stt-am-patcher deployment

Client need to apply speech patches every time Speech service upgrade issue(requires uninstall and install). To reduce the effort, client log tickets to get a permanent way tor speech patches. We get response from Speech team: Unfortunately there ...
9 months ago in Speech Services 0 Planned for future release

smart formatting in italian language

it would be very useful to implement this functionality to further refine the transcription of audio in speech to text service.Currently the transcription is very poor: lack of punctuation, conversion from letters to numbers, lack of recognition o...
about 1 year ago in Speech Services 1 Future consideration

More language options for speech to text (Turkish)

I just enrolled for Speec to text API. Unfortunately the languages are limited to 13. I am wondering if IBM are planning to add more languages whereas Google supports 60. Turkish is one of the languages i would like to see.
almost 2 years ago in Speech Services 1 Not under consideration

Add Turkish to Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech services

According to Wikipedia Turkish is the 13th most spoken language in the world. It'd be very helpful to add Turkish to the Speech services since it is also often required in some client engagements!
about 2 years ago in Speech Services 4 Not under consideration

Availability of Ukrainian Language Support in Watson Speech-to-Text API

The world's security is in crisis now. We want to help even a little with the power of IT. Among them, I think that the support of Ukrainian by Speech to text will be a big help. We have begun offering tools to translate the results of Japanese vo...
over 2 years ago in Speech Services 2 Future consideration

German model needs proper case and punctuation

The previous generation German models do not have any upper case words or punctuation. The next generation model (telephony only for now) has no punctuation and almost no correct upper case words. For German, proper case and at least some basic pu...
almost 3 years ago in Speech Services 0

Watson Speech to Text should return timestamps accurate to milliseconds for transcription

Real-life scenario: Researchers from Brandeis University, Boston University, Harvard, Boston College, and Northeastern University are investigating cognitive aging and biomarkers of dementia. Currently, they have been hand-scoring cognitive interv...
almost 3 years ago in Speech Services 2 Not under consideration

Remove Limitation of article length in text to speech api

We are using text to speech service to transcode texts using the api. Unfortunately, the api limits the size of text to 5kb. Most of our texts have a size > 5kb. Please remove or adjust the maximum size of texts in order to make longer texts po...
almost 3 years ago in Speech Services 0 Future consideration

Allow metadata to be saved with custom language models

We need to create and manage custom language models for a potentially large number of different clients. We would like to be able to save metadata with a custom language model that would help us to identify things like what client account the cust...
over 3 years ago in Speech Services 0 Planned for future release

usability of the new IBM Watson tts demo site

When we did the project "spaceships with opinions" the IBM Watson tts-demo site was a great help. So I feel I have a responsibility to tell you how I think the new site is failing. https://www.ibm.com/demos/live/tts-demo/self-service/home It works...
almost 4 years ago in Speech Services 3 Not under consideration