[picheny]

We know we have strong core speech technology based on various comparisons we have done in the context of competitive evaluations done in conjunction with various government funded speech programs. However, our service is still very new. We could have waited for months to tune it, but our primary goal here is to solicit feedback from the community for how to make our services easier to use, especially in the context of our other platform services. We don't want to wait till the design is so mature that it is impossible to change - so any and all feedback is very welcome!

[braindead_in]

I run an human powered audio transcription service and I'd be very interested in trying it out. I went through the API docs and it seems straightforward enough. However, what's the pricing? Can't find it anywhere. Is it free?

[nfriedly]

I believe all of the Watson services are free while in beta and will be paid services once they mature a bit more and exit the beta.

[taf2]

yes but how do you sign up for either service?

[nfriedly]

The Watson services are only accessible through Bluemix for the moment. Create an account on https://console.ng.bluemix.net and then add a service instance.

The idea was that you'll also host your application in bluemix, although I think the services are actually accessible elsewhere once you create the instance in bluemix.

[picheny]

you mean ibms service?