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Amazon Polly vs IBM Watson Text To Speech comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Polly
Ranking in Text-To-Speech Services
1st
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Watson Text To Speech
Ranking in Text-To-Speech Services
5th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Text-To-Speech Services category, the mindshare of Amazon Polly is 31.0%, down from 39.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Watson Text To Speech is 1.2%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Text-To-Speech Services
 

Featured Reviews

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Enhancing customer experience with diverse voice and language options
Amazon Polly could benefit from a feature allowing it to mimic the voices of well-known brand ambassadors, with their permission. This would add significant value to customer interactions by making them feel like they are speaking to a familiar voice. Another point is that Amazon Polly needs better hard phone capability compared to Cisco solutions, which easily connect with hard phones. Currently, Amazon Polly relies on a web browser panel for call management, posing certain limitations.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
University
7%
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Polly?
The solution has a pay-as-you-go pricing model, where you must pay according to your usage.
What needs improvement with Amazon Polly?
When you put more tags inside Amazon Polly to define break time and instruct the speech to be conversational, sometimes it gives you an error.
What is your primary use case for Amazon Polly?
We use Amazon Polly to check the SSML tags to see how they play the prompt.
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Sample Customers

GoAnimate, Duolingo, Bandwidth
American Airlines, UBank, Bitly, Eurobits
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