Akkadu vs. Azure AI Speech

Akkadu is very well suited for global meetings, where participants speak different languages. Or with participants who speak the same language but with a strong accent that it is difficult to understand.

Excellent for voice enabled apps built in security so speech data does not go outside Flexible deployment on the cloud Speech translation in real time scenarios Using customised keywords to activate IoT devices

Incentivized

• Very accurate
• Integrates with any virtual platform such as Zoom, Teams, WebEx, etc.
• Very easy-to-use

• Deployment is easy since its available on the cloud.
• It is directly as a service and no expertise in AI or ML is needed by the development team.
• Security of data since Azure promises that it does not store the data of the customers that is used by the service.

Incentivized

• It'd be great if it has AI Speech so we don't need to read the live captions. Customer service said the AI Speech feature will be released next month.

• The software is not user-friendly- it has a complicated interface and requires a lot of training to set up.
• The pricing is also costly - so for an individual user, not on a company plan, this is not affordable.

Incentivized

Akkadu.ai is more accurate. The fact in the Akkadu app you can pick accents such as English (India) or English (Australia) improves the accuracy of the AI. Also the fact you can add terminologies from your industry in advance, makes the AI more accurate as well. Akkadu is very easy-to-use Customer service speaks fluent English and Spanish

Having used both this service and IBM Watson's Text to Speech, I can safely say that IBM's product comes out on top but this is a close call as both products are very good in their own right. That being said, this Azure service lacks some of the extra functionality that can be found in other products such as broader multi-language support. This product is also more costly than some other alternatives which is a con in my opinion. Azure does, however, come out on top in regards to customer support and general support of the product as it is supported by Microsoft which also means that it integrates well with other parts of the Microsoft suite.

Incentivized

• Very positive impact! Meetings with foreign clients that don't speak good English, now became very smooth.
• Colleagues that don't speak good English now can use their mother tongue during our internal meetings with the Headquarters in Germany. The HQ has noticed the engagement of the foreign colleagues has increased.

• The platform provides solutions for project information and easy management of client contacts.
• Reliable tools for quick reporting and the predictive data offered are quite relevant.
• Multiple data migration and easy to schedule through the platform.