What is IBM Watson Text to Speech?

IBM Watson Text to Speech is an API cloud service that enables you to convert written text into natural-sounding audio in a variety of languages and voices within an existing application or within watsonx Assistant. Give your brand a voice and improve customer experience and engagement by interacting with users in their native language. Increase accessibility for users with different abilities, provide audio options to avoid distracted driving, or automate customer service interactions to eliminate hold times.

Features

What sets Watson Text to Speech apart? Everything you need to get started.

• **Real-time speech synthesis: **Provide multilingual, natural-sounding support.
• **A unique voice for your brand: **Create a branded voice with Premium.
• **Leader in AI and ML: **Benefit from IBM Research in AI and machine learning.
• **Natural-sounding neural voices: **Benefit from our deep neural networks trained on human speech to automatically produce smooth and natural sounding voice quality.
• **Custom voices: **Design your own unique branded neural voice modeled after your chosen speaker using as little as one hour of recordings. Premium feature.
• **Controllable speech attributes: **Easily adjust pronunciation, volume, pitch, speed and other attributes using Speech Synthesis Markup Language.
• **Customized word pronunciations: **Clarify the pronunciation of unusual words with the help of IPA or the IBM SPR.
• **Expressiveness: **Control tone of voice by choosing a specific speaking style: GoodNews, Apology, and Uncertainty.
• **Voice transformation: **Personalize voice quality by specifying attributes such as strength, pitch, breathiness, rate, timbre, and more.

Benefits

• **Improves user experience: **Help all customers comprehend your message by translating written text to audio.
• **Boosts contact resolution: **Solve customer issues faster by providing key information in their native language.
• **Protects your data: **Enjoy the security of IBM’s world-class data governance practices.
• **Truly runs anywhere: **Built to support global languages and deployable on any cloud—public, private, hybrid, multicloud, or on-premises.