IBM Watson Speech Services

IBM Watson Speech Services

Richie Verma

Say It Like You Mean It! - New Expressive Voices for IBM Text to Speech

Transform your text into a vibrant dialogue with our new expressive voices.

4 min readJun 11, 2024

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Marco Noel

IBM’s New Watson Large Speech Model Gives Generative AI a Voice

Authors and Key Contributors: George Saon, Gakuto Kurata, Daniel Bolanos, Gretchen Tietge, Peter Keller, Kelly To

3 min readDec 12, 2023

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IBM’s New Watson Large Speech Model Gives Generative AI a Voice

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Andrew R. Freed

A mental model for Speech to Text training

The two following anecdotes are how I think about customizing a speech to text model using a “corpus” of words and phrases in context as…

4 min readMar 14, 2023

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A mental model for Speech to Text training

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Shalini Gilra

How to retrieve Watson Speech metering usage data from Licensing Service

By Shalini Gilra — DevOps CP4D, IBM Watson Speech Services.

4 min readSep 15, 2022

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How to retrieve Watson Speech metering usage data from Licensing Service

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Andrew R. Freed

New Speech Testing Utilities for Conversational AI Projects

Teams building Conversational AI solutions have two testing questions early in their project development:

5 min readJul 27, 2022

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Marco Noel

How To Properly Plan and Configure Watson Text to Speech in an IVR

By Kelly To and Marco Noel — Product Managers, IBM Watson Speech Services

10 min readDec 15, 2021

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How To Properly Plan and Configure Watson Text to Speech in an IVR

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Marco Noel

New Python Scripts to Measure Word Error Rate on Watson Speech to Text

In my previous series of Medium articles, I covered the overall methodology and best practices of training Watson Speech-to-Text (STT)…

6 min readSep 1, 2021

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New Python Scripts to Measure Word Error Rate on Watson Speech to Text

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Marco Noel

Watson Speech to Text: How to Plan Your Migration to the Next-Generation Models

In a previous article, we announced the release of our IBM Watson Speech to Text (STT) next-generation models that can deliver accuracy…

4 min readAug 30, 2021

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Rachel Liddell

Next-Generation Watson Speech to Text

Watson Speech to Text has released eight languages on our next-generation engine. The new engine delivers accuracy improvements as high as…

6 min readApr 23, 2021

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A person speaking, the audio going to the the model to be transcribed, the transcription, and the recurrent processing of that audio and transcription.

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Marco Noel

Tune-By-Example: How To Tune Watson Text-to-Speech For Better Intonations

Co-authored by Rachel Liddell and Marco Noel, IBM Watson Speech Offering Managers

13 min readApr 21, 2021

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Head of a Les Paul guitar showing the tuner knobs

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IBM Watson Speech-to-Text enables fast and accurate speech transcription in multiple languages for a variety of use cases. IBM Watson Text-to-Speech enables you to convert written text into natural-sounding audio in a variety of languages and voices.
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Marco Noel
Sr Product Manager, IBM Watson Speech / Language Translator. Very enthusiastic and passionate about AI technologies and methodologies. All views are only my own

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