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Google Cloud Speech-to-Text vs IBM Watson Speech To Text comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
Ranking in Speech-To-Text Services
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Watson Speech To Text
Ranking in Speech-To-Text Services
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the Speech-To-Text Services category, the mindshare of Google Cloud Speech-to-Text is 15.1%, down from 21.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Watson Speech To Text is 3.7%, down from 6.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Speech-To-Text Services Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text15.1%
IBM Watson Speech To Text3.7%
Other81.2%
Speech-To-Text Services
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2252211 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Architect & NLP Python Developer at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
Support challenges persist despite audio technology advancements
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text is not entirely accurate, so we have to correct for those errors in our AI software. It uses neural networks, and that stochastic processing is 70% to 75% accurate. It gets it wrong too often, and since I personally work with this, I don't appreciate that. However, they seem to be the best option currently. We have to write our own improvements because their tools to improve transcription accuracy in our domain aren't very powerful. The timestamp technology for recognized words is inadequate, so we don't use it. We understand words based on their meaning, and we have a whole AI engine that does that, which is one of our differentiators from a product standpoint. We didn't use the custom voice creation feature; we just use their voices, which are fine for our purposes.
it_user964722 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Transformation and Automation Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Easy to understand, configure, and use
I would recommend it. IBM has several other solutions that can connect to it, so no need to buy different pieces from several providers. If you want to find a good solution for the customer and put some translation tool or machine learning for text understanding and so on, you can get this from IBM. It can be a one-stop shop for a good solution. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. It has good quality, and it's easy to work with.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We've found the solution scales well."
"Google Cloud Speech-to-Text helps to keep my team more productive."
"During the time I used Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, it was very impactful to the organization as it made our tasks much easier to perform."
"The implementation is simple, and the outputs are very accurate and crisp."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"You could dictate a bunch of stuff, and then you can get ChatGPT or something to clean it up."
"Google Cloud Speech-to-Text sounds incredibly natural, which is impressive."
"I would suggest Google Cloud Speech-to-Text to others, primarily for the speaker diarization feature."
"It was easy to understand, easy to configure, and easy to use."
 

Cons

"The tool's telephony model does not produce accurate results."
"Since it is a paid service, it is very difficult to access if a user does not have the credentials. Also, we have to create the API keys and secret keys repeatedly to maintain authentication and privacy."
"Sometimes, speaker diarization is affected, leading to incorrect speaker identification."
"Google Cloud Speech-to-Text's trial experience could be improved by adding some extra minutes in the trial version."
"Given the numerous accents and dialects in India, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text could improve its handling of Indian accents."
"Google Cloud Speech-to-Text is 100 out of 100 when it works, and when it doesn't work, which is fairly often, it gets a zero. It doesn't fail gracefully; it fails in an unexpected way."
"The one thing that I find is when I often use specialized terms, and the solution doesn't know them."
"The multilanguage support for the chatbot needs to be better."
"The quality needs to be updated. For speech to text, support for additional languages can be included. For example, support for the large markets in Eastern Europe, such as Polish or Romanian, would be nice."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool's cost is also very low. The tool is cheaply priced. It charges around 0.13 INR per call with a duration of five minutes."
"Cost-wise, I would say it is all-inclusive in the payment made to Google."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
12%
Healthcare Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
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