I want to run text-to-speech conversion on my server using a service over an API.
Google Text-To-Speech (TTS) is not available for this now. What alternatives are available (both paid and free)?
Here's a selection of RESTful service providers that I know of.
Cereproc
Ivona
iSpeech
Nuance
Microsoft (Project Oxford)
Watson
Neo
Acapela
AT&T (think this is closed to new users now)
There are others, some free - but lower quality. You get what you pay for...
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I setup a Google Cloud account for my company to test Google Vision, 2 years ago, using my Gmail account. Now that we have solidified our use case, I need to migrate to our company account, not using my Gmail account. I do not want any interruption of service. Nor do I want to generate a new API.
My business driver is purchasing support for Vision. We are encountering issues that I am unable to get support for without purchasing enhanced support. Any and all comments are welcomed.
Documentation was not as helpful as I was hoping.
Can Whatsapp Cloud API be used for business as a reseller?
like what is the difference between the new Whatsapp Cloud API and the API we get from Resellers?
Also, is there an API to automate the signup process?
Those Resellers you mention are often Business Solution Providers (BSPs), or BSP partners.
So that implies, in order to be WhatsApp Cloud API reseller, you will need to be either a BSP or BSP partner.
The Cloud API architecture significantly simplifies the BSP’s operational and infrastructure requirements to integrate with WhatsApp Business Platform.
See "What is the architecture of the Cloud API?", in Cloud API FAQs
As a BSP or its partner, a reselling program is available to you both for On-premises/Managed WhatsApp Business API and Cloud API. However, you need to take into account Cloud API is relatively new and all BSPs are currently adapting/expanding their current solutions to new service offered by Meta.
In other words, Cloud API is not yet available everywhere and current services offered by BSPs are more versatile and feature rich than Cloud API until this will eventually change.
The largest WhatsApp BSP is 360dialog, offering WhatsApp Business API integration Platform as a Service, and on-premises plans.
Since you asked about differences between Cloud API and BSPs, let me give a short comparison between Cloud API and 360dialog key differences, as an example:
Differences
360dialog
Meta Cloud API
Message Throughput (Per Second)
Flexible scalability setups for small to large businesses. Send up to 70 text messages per second for single-connect. Send up to 250 text messages per second for multi-connect.
Up to 80 messages per second of combined sending and receiving (inclusive of text and media messages). In the event of high system loads, a business may experience reduced message throughput. Starting in July 2022, support up to 250 messages per second of combined sending and receiving (inclusive of text and media messages), by request
SLA - Uptime
Standard and Premium support with different SLAs: >99%, >98%
Goals of 99.9% at GraphAPI.
SLA - Disaster Recovery
Average response time of 4h. Escalation Path to Meta team after 360dialog investigation.
No SLA
Sources:
Full comparison table of differences between On-premises and Cloud API solutions.
360dialog Pricing
So, as you might've noticed, with BSP will work more closely with you as a solution provider and will offer you more flexibility depending on the business scale.
WhatsApp Business API requires some developer effort, but there are also different WhatsApp API based solutions that make this whole process a lot easier.
One of them is get.chat WhatsApp Business Team Inbox & WhatsApp Integration API which will help you to integrate with WhatsApp much faster. Plus, it will enable access to non-technical people in your team/company, too!
I am a co-founder and CTO so I am open to answer any questions if you want to know more about our solution. Here is also a link to the docs if you're interested in learning more by yourself.
Further reading:
An easy guide about WhatsApp Business API by get.chat
Cloud API FAQs - offered by Meta directly
On-premises WhatsApp Business API FAQs - hosted by BSPs and resellers
now there are two types of Whatsapp Business API. The ones from the diferent Busniness Solution Providers (BSP) and the one from Meta (Whatsapp CloudAPI).
I think that untill now, each BSP has develped it´s own APIS starting off the one provided by Meta. So each BSP offeres his own APIs (endpoints, libraries..).
Meta has now published the API offered to the BSP and now every business has direct access to it. No more BSP are needed, unless you want and easy to use solution.
The main difference I see between BSP and Meta API is that BSP are easier to use. MetaAPI is a huge complex system.
Now you don't need to look at BSP, all you can do is set up, create a business account and developer effort to make things work according to your business desire, and create message templates.
please have a below link for further eloboration.
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/338665938087159
I am in a search for open source POSes, I would love if I get such service for free or atleast a trial, The main goal is to have such POS that can provide an API too against it services or something of sort where we can build our own REST services to automate the task and all that.
Thankyou.
Stripe is the most popular Point of Sale API. it has legendary documentation and has SDKs for javascript (ES6), Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, Node, Go, and .Net. Stripe has no monthly fees, however they do take a 1.4% + 20p for European cards, and 2.9% + 20 for all non-European cards if your account is registered in the UK.
https://stripe.com/gb?utm_campaign=paid_brand-UK_en_Search_Brand_Stripe-2032860449&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&ad_content=355351450265&utm_term=kwd-94834400&utm_matchtype=e&utm_adposition=&utm_device=c
Failing that Square's payment API is also incredibly popular.It uses a similar pricing model to Stripe
https://developer.squareup.com/docs/payments-pricing
I've been told that Yahoo used to had a free LSI service known as Yahoo Boss API that begans to being payed since July 20th and that Microsoft Bing Search Engine have a free service that offers similar but not as good functionalities as Yahoo Boss API.
Does there exist other free APIs than the above that provides such service to developers?
I've been trying to find something similar from Google without any results.
Unfortunatelly, as of Aug 2013 there are no such trustworthy services :( or at least I wasn't able to find anyone.
Have you tried http://www.saplo.com?
I want to build a service which needs to get this data from some source for further analysis. Does Google, Yahoo or someone else provides free access to this data for use in other websites using some API. I think Twitter does something like this for their data although they enforce some limits on this. The data I need is mostly for US and Canada.
Thanks,
Gary
You can find a bunch of free web services here: http://www.webservicex.net/
If you can stand the ads, you can also check here: http://www.webservicelist.com/