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    Azure AI Speech

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Azure AI Speech service provides a range of speech recognition and generation capabilities including speech transcription, text-to-speech and speech translation. It provides a range of speech recognition and generation capabilities including speech transcription, text-to-speech, speech translation, and speaker recognition.

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    Dragon

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    Azure AI SpeechDragon
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    Azure AI SpeechDragon
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    Microsoft
    This service is well suited for scenarios where you need to integrate text-to-speech and/or speech-to-text into applications. Within our organisation, it is primarily used by students for development purposes to enable said functionality but is also used to provide accessibility to students who have hearing-related issues. Its multi-language support is also beneficial for our international students who have English as a second language and are therefore able to rapidly translate any text or speech that they do not understand.
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    Sound Business Systems
    Dragon is well suited for occasional dictation whereas for short tasks it may be less appropriate. Step by step commands can take a lot of time to program however these would be worthwhile long term if it is a repetitive task. Dragon is a new language to learn and this can be overwhelming. By following the guide this will support you for future use and it is possible to learn by using the "click" command which replicates the mouse click. With this scenario you can say what you see for example in Word, say click home then click centre which will centre the document
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • APIs offered are very robust.
    • Languages supported is far greater than most of its competitors.
    • Integration with our custom apps was easy.
    • Speech models that we created using neural voices were quite impressive.
    • Translation services worked really well.
    • Built in machine learning opens it to a lot more business use cases for the future.
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    Sound Business Systems
    • Speech recognition
    • automation
    • transcription
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • More support for India regional languages and the ability to interpret Indian dialect.
    • More detailed documentation with more coded examples to be available.
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    Sound Business Systems
    • Program complex keyboard shortcuts
    • known issues with understanding medical terms
    • Need to be quicker
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    Usability
    Microsoft
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    Sound Business Systems
    Overall, its gives the functionality that I need in my role and can support with automating tasks. I mainly use it for autotext, to add blocks of text and it works universally across all applications. It saves time and works well in Windows 11. It works very well navigating the web.
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    Microsoft
    Azure Cognitive Speech Services is simple and the interface is not complicated even for those getting started with these customer services tools and the best voice recognition. Setting the platform dashboard preferences is also an easy process and with the ability to manage workflow and document management the system functions are stable and effective.
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    Sound Business Systems
    You can train in unknown words and use autotext. It learns my writing style and uses AI algorithms to understand context of dictation. Dragon works on all applications instead of googles service that will work online only. Can program Dragon commands to complete repetitive sentences. Dragon can open websites and documents entirely by voice whereas Google's is cloud based.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • It helps us catch requirements and make notes so that we don't forget when drawing out proposals.
    • Also helps us with targeted pitches and helps save time.
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