These cognitive speech and language services are open to anyone, enabling application developers and IBM’s growing ecosystem to develop and commercialize new cognitive computing solutions that can do the following:
- Translate news, patents, or conversational documents across several languages (Language Translation)
- Produce transcripts from speech in multi-media files or conversational streams, capturing vast information for a myriad of business uses. This Watson cognitive service also benefits from a recent IBM conversational speech transcription breakthrough to advance the accuracy of speech recognition (Speech to Text)
- Make their web, mobile, and Internet of Things applications speak with a consistent voice across all Representational State Transfer (REST) – compatible platforms (Text to Speech)
- There are already organizations building applications with these services, since IBM opened them up in beta mode over the past year on the Watson Developer Cloud on IBM Bluemix. Developers have used these APIs to quickly build prototype applications in only two days at IBM hack-a-thons, demonstrating the versatility and ease of use of the services.
Supported Capabilities
We have made several updates since the beta releases which was inspired by feedback from our user community.
Language Translation now supports:
- Language Identification – identifies the textual input of the language if it is one of the 62 supported languages
- The News domain – targeted at news articles and transcripts, it translates English to and from French, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic
- The Conversational domain – targeted at conversational colloquialisms, it translates English to and from French, Spanish, Portuguese, or Arabic
- The Patent domain – targeted at technical and legal terminology, it translates Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, or Korean to English
Speech to Text now supports:
- New wideband and narrowband telephony language support – U.S. English, Spanish, and Japanese
- Broader vocabulary coverage, and improved accuracy for U.S. English
Text to Speech now supports:
- U.S. English, UK English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German
- A subset of SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) for U.S. English, U.K. English, French, and German (see the documentation for more details)
- Improved programming support for applications stored outside of Bluemix
- Pricing and Freemium Tiers
Trial Bluemix accounts remain free. Please visit www.bluemix.net to register, and get free instant access to a 30-day trial without a credit card. Use of the Speech to Text, Text to Speech, and Language Translation services are free during this trial period.
After the trial period, pricing for Language Translation will be:
- $0.02 per thousand characters. The first million characters per month are free.
- An add-on charge of $3.00 per thousand characters for usage of the Patent model in Language Translation.
- $0.02 per minute. The first thousand minutes per month are free.
- An add-on charge of $0.02 per minute for usage of narrowband (telephony) models. The first thousand minutes per month are free.
- $0.02 per thousand characters. The first million characters per month are free.
Transition Plan
We look forward to continuing our partnership with the many clients, business partners, and creative developers that have built innovative applications using the beta version of the four services: Speech to Text, Text to Speech, Machine Translation and Language Identification. If you have used these beta services, please migrate your applications to use the GA services by August 10, 2015. After this date the beta plans for these services will no longer be available. For details about upgrading, see:
We’re eager to see the next round of cognitive applications based on the Speech and Translation Services. For questions, join the discussion in our Forum, or send an email to HiWatson@us.ibm.com with “Speech” or “Translation” in your inquiry.
IBM is placing the power of Watson in the hands of developers and an ecosystem of partners, entrepreneurs, tech enthusiasts and students with a growing platform of Watson services (APIs) to create an entirely new class of apps and businesses that make cognitive computing systems the new computing standard.
For more info on our speech services, see our earlier speech blogs
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ORIGINAL: IBM
JULY 6, 2015
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