Azure AI Speech vs. IBM Watson Language Translator (discontinued)
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![]() Azure AI Speech | Score8.7 out of 10 | N/A | The 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. | $1 per month |
IBM Watson Language Translator (discontinued) | Score7 out of 10 | N/A | IBM Watson Language Translator allowed users of IBM Watson to translate news stories and documents from one language to another with neural machine translation. The product is EOL from June 2023, after which it will no longer be for sale, or supported. | N/A |
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100% Would buy again 8 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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100% Delivers good value for the price 6 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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100% Happy with the feature set 8 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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100% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 5 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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100% Implementation went as expected 6 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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| Small Businesses | Dragon Speech Recognition Score9 out of 10 | No answers on this topic |
| Medium-sized Companies | No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic |
| Enterprises | Verint Speech and Text Analytics Score8.4 out of 10 | No answers on this topic |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.0 | 9.1 |
| Vendor post-sale | 8.0 | - |
| Vendor pre-sale | 8.0 | - |
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