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IBM Watson Speech to Text
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Plus | $0.02 per minute for 1–999,999 minutes in a month; $0.01 per minute at 1,000,000 or more minutes · Unlimited minutes · 100 concurrent transcription requests · custom language and acoustic models | $0.02 a month |
| Lite | 500 minutes per month at no cost · 500 minutes per month · no customization · services deleted after 30 days of inactivity | Free |
| Premium | Contact an IBM representative; first 150,000 minutes per month at no charge · Unlimited minutes · unlimited concurrent transcriptions · data isolation and added security features · HIPAA support available in specified locations | On request |
As ibm.com lists them, read 9 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from IBM Watson Speech to Text's own pages
- API access
- Yes · cloud.ibm.com, 22 Sept 2026
- Call analysis
- IBM describes using Speech to Text transcriptions with Watson Natural Language Understanding to analyze customer calls. · cloud.ibm.com, 9 Oct 2026
- Customization
- Paid plans can customize language and acoustic models, and language models can use grammars to restrict recognized phrases. · cloud.ibm.com, 9 Oct 2026
- Data deletion
- Customers can label data with a customer ID and use an API method to delete data associated with that ID. · cloud.ibm.com, 9 Oct 2026
- Export formats
- JSON · cloud.ibm.com, 22 Sept 2026
- Founded
- 1911 · ibm.com, 19 Oct 2026
- Free plan
- Yes · cloud.ibm.com, 22 Sept 2026
- Headquarters
- Armonk, New York, United States · ibm.com, 19 Oct 2026
- Input limitation
- The service accepts audio data only; IBM says audio must be separated from video before transcription. · cloud.ibm.com, 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- IBM documents a pre-built phone assistant integration combining watsonx Assistant, Speech to Text, and Watson Text to Speech. · cloud.ibm.com, 9 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- IBM identifies customer self-service, agent assistance, and call analytics as use cases, and describes Plus as intended for small businesses and development or testing by larger enterprises. · ibm.com, 9 Oct 2026
- Interim results
- The product page says applications can use transcription as it is generated before final results are complete. · ibm.com, 9 Oct 2026
- Languages supported
- 14 · cloud.ibm.com, 22 Sept 2026
- Languages and audio
- IBM lists support for multiple languages and formats including WAV, FLAC, MP3, Ogg, WebM, and PCM. · cloud.ibm.com, 9 Oct 2026
- Request limits
- Synchronous HTTP and WebSocket requests accept up to 100 MB of audio, while asynchronous HTTP accepts up to 1 GB. · cloud.ibm.com, 9 Oct 2026
- Security
- Premium offers data isolation and features including Key Protect, service endpoints, mutual authentication, and HIPAA readiness. · cloud.ibm.com, 9 Oct 2026
- Speaker diarization
- IBM’s product page says the service can recognize who said what in a multi-participant voice exchange. · ibm.com, 9 Oct 2026
- Speaker identification
- Yes · cloud.ibm.com, 22 Sept 2026
- Streaming and batch
- It supports synchronous and asynchronous HTTP interfaces and a full-duplex WebSocket interface for low-latency communication. · cloud.ibm.com, 9 Oct 2026
- Support availability
- Premium instances require contacting an IBM sales representative before provisioning. · cloud.ibm.com, 9 Oct 2026
- Timestamp support
- Yes · cloud.ibm.com, 22 Sept 2026
- What it does
- The service uses speech recognition APIs to transcribe spoken audio in multiple languages and formats. · cloud.ibm.com, 9 Oct 2026
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