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Speech Services

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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

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

Add m4a speech to text support

This is a great format for content creation apps in iOS, why not support it?I have to get around by converting to wav or mp3 adding more waiting time
almost 5 years ago in Speech Services 1 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

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

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

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