The IBM Watson Text to Speech Service is a cloud service that lets you convert written text into natural-sounding audio in various languages and voices within an existing application or within Watson Assistant. Watson Text to Speech enables fast and accurate speech transcription in multiple languages for various use cases, including customer self-service apps that:
- Build a mobile to-do app that captures voice memos to save as written to-do items
- Use as a simple ready-to-use model to capture English voices without any customization
- Use as a lightweight feature that can be invoked from the constrained mobile device
Follow the tutorial to walk through the steps of starting a Watson Text to Speech Service on a Kubernetes cluster, processing the data set, and using the Watson Text to Speech Service. The tutorial also shows you how to modify speech synthesis characteristics using different parameters.