Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech

Re:Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability ... by saas_co_de on Friday August 31, 2018 @05:04AM (#17884046)

It is also extremely expensive ($1.44/hr of audio) which really limits its potential. I looked at it for a project but it just didn't make sense.

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Re:Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability ... by londons_explore on Friday August 31, 2018 @06:20AM (#17884349)

I can't imagine many use cases where $1.44/hr is a significant cost.

If you sell audiobooks, then a one off cost of a few dollars to convert the book to audio form is tiny compared to the authorship of the text.

If you are doing something like turn by turn navigation, clips are typically only a few seconds long, so very cheap, and again, many of your users will be needing the same clip, so no need to pay for it twice.

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Re:Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability ... by anonymous5133 on Friday August 31, 2018 @05:32AM (#17884149)

I've been using it for one of my projects but it just requires one-time use of the audio. As in, I use the text to speech to create audio files which I just recycle. Overall, it is more effective compared to using my own voice or hiring a voice over person to do it.

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