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Speech Services

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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...
over 2 years ago in Speech Services 0 Future consideration

Utterance segmentation made sensitive to speaker identity (features)

Utterance segmentation appears to be entirely independent of (the features used for) speaker labeling. Specifically, it was noticed that even though the speaker labeling correctly identifies that a new speaker (very clear because it goes from male...
about 5 years ago in Speech Services 1 Functionality already exists

Automatic Voice Model detection

Automatically detect the voice model to improve transcription in use cases where multiple speakers have different accents (e.g. US and UK on the same line) - similar to language detection in Watson Assistant.
almost 6 years ago in Speech Services 1 Not under consideration

Provide phoneme and word times for TTS

Useful for highlighting words as they play or driving avatar speech
over 7 years ago in Speech Services 0 Not under consideration

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
7 days ago in Speech Services 0 Submitted

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 ...
8 days ago in Speech Services 0 Submitted

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...
6 months ago in Speech Services 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in Speech Services 2 Not under 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...
almost 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...
about 3 years ago in Speech Services 3 Not under consideration