IBM Watson Text to Speech vs Voice.ai

IBM Watson Text to Speech is an API cloud service that converts written text into audio in multiple languages and voices, for applications or watsonx Assistant. Deep neural networks trained on human speech produce its neural voices. SSML controls can change pronunciation, volume, pitch, speed, and other attributes; unusual pronunciations can be specified with IPA or IBM SPR. Listed speaking styles include GoodNews, Apology, and Uncertainty, and voice transformation can adjust strength, pitch, breathiness, rate, and timbre. The service supports nine languages and accepts up to 5,000 input units. Export formats include A-law, Basic audio, FLAC, Linear 16-bit PCM, MP3, Mu-law, Ogg, WebM, and WAV. Deployment options include public, private, hybrid, multicloud, and on-premises infrastructure. Deploy Anywhere is billed by contacting IBM. Premium can include a custom branded neural voice modeled on a chosen speaker using as little as one hour of recordings.

Voice.ai provides real-time AI voice transformation for PC, alongside text-to-speech and online audio tools. Its PC app describes its voice engine as deep-learning based and lets users hear a changed voice in real time. A library of user-generated voices and voice cloning are also listed. Voice.ai says transformed speech is returned in the speaker’s language. On Windows, it can work with microphone-enabled apps such as Discord, Zoom, Google Meet, WhatsApp, Skype and Twitch, plus games including Minecraft and Fortnite. The platform listing includes Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, while its API offering covers voice agents, cloning and text-to-speech. The free plan includes 5k credits/month and a five-minute audio conversion limit. Starter costs $5 a month and includes 15k credits/month and five instant voice clones. Higher plans add credits, clones, concurrent generation and agent-call capacity, with priority support on Core and technical success manager support on Business.