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Speech Services

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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

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!
over 1 year ago in Speech Services 4 Not under consideration

Ability to move fully trained STT models between separate instances (i.e. DEV vs. PROD or separate accounts)

Customers for best practice reasons keep environments separate (DEV vs. PROD) for security, performance, testing & availability of the model. Training STT models can take hours to train. Not utilizing fully trained models results in delays ...
over 5 years ago in Speech Services 4 Not under consideration

Punctuation Needed for IBM Speech to Text Service

I have a customer that is a daily magazine on the web as well as a podcast network. They offer analysis and commentary about politics, news, business, technology, and culture. They are considering our IBM Speech to Text (STT) solution to provide a...
over 3 years ago in Speech Services 0 Planned for future release

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...
almost 2 years ago in Speech Services 2 Future consideration

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

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.
about 1 year ago in Speech Services 1 Not under consideration

Improve API response structure for timestamps and word_confidence within STT SpeechRecognitionAlternative model

As part of the response from making a POST to the v1/recognize endpoint in the Speech to Text service, the user receives an array of "alternatives". Within these "alternatives" objects, there are two arrays called "word_confidence" and "transcript...
about 6 years ago in Speech Services 0 Not under consideration

Requesting for IBM Bluemix Watson Text-to-speech supports Mandarin and Cantonese

IBM Bluemix Watson Text-to-speech service supports Mandarin and Cantonese. IBM Bluemix Watson Speech-to-Text support Mandarin, it's logical that Text-to-speech support Mandarin. Meanwhile, there is a niche market on STT/TTS for Cantonese, which ...
almost 7 years ago in Speech Services 3 Functionality already exists