Aculab Cloud vs AwareSDK Voice

Aculab Cloud provides APIs for building applications that handle voice and video calls, messaging, and inbound or outbound fax. It supports calls to telephone numbers and SIP addresses, and its WebRTC interface can place live calling in a web page. Listed capabilities include live speaker detection, speech recognition, translation, text-to-speech, voice biometrics, SMS, and MMS. The REST API works with Python, C#, VB, Java, PHP, or other scripting languages; REST applications run on a web server you host. The UAS API supports Python, C#, VB, F#, and C++, with applications running in a User Application Server installed on your platform. Speech recognition uses Google Speech-to-Text, while text-to-speech supports Amazon Polly and Cepstral engines. Aculab Cloud runs on AWS; web services use HTTPS, UAS connections use SSL by default, and customers can encrypt media files with keys supplied at runtime. Accounts are assigned to Europe, USA-East, or USA-West (beta). The free Trial includes $10 in credit for one month. Production is pay-as-you-go, with rates shown in the Cloud Console; Premium usage is invoiced and requires contacting Aculab.

AwareSDK Voice is a paid SDK for adding mobile voice authentication on iOS and Android. It provides speaker-recognition algorithms, libraries, user interfaces, reference programs and documentation for multifactor authentication. Biometric templates can be stored and matched on the device or on a server, and recognition is described as language-independent. Authentication supports static and dynamic passphrases. Voice recognition can be combined with other biometric modalities; Aware’s Knomi framework pairs facial recognition with voice authentication. Aware positions the SDK for remote identity authentication, contact centers and mobile applications, and says it helps detect replay and synthetic-voice attacks. Developer downloads include Android and iOS voice-capture demos, but a release key is required for those projects to work. The company describes its APIs as configurable and its technical support as collaborative. Aware began in 1993 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. The product page invites demo scheduling; pricing is available by demo or contact, with no public price or trial terms listed.