- Cassette of Phonetic Sounds - http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/cassette.htm
For speech researchers interested in a standard for phonetic sounds. From University College of London.
- The Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing - http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/
University of Shefield "Moby" project. A public domain word list for several languages, thesaurus, pronunciation guide and the complete works of Shakespeare
- International Phonetic Association - http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html
Provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages: the International Phonetic Alphabet.
- Univ. Of Pennsylvania Speech Resource - http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/
Linguistic Data Consortium - an open consortium of labs, companies and universities. It creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for speech research and development purposes. Founded by ARPA 1992.
- WASPAA'97 Home page - http://www.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU/waspaa97/
IEEE 1997 Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics.
- Tempus-3D - http://www.frye.com/products/tempus/tempus.html
An interesting research tool for displaying voice spectra as recorded in .WAV files.
- Conversational Computer - Weather - Jupiter - http://www.sls.lcs.mit.edu/sls/whatwedo/applications/jupiter.html
An MIT Spoken Language Systems research project which gives the weather in 500+ worldwide cities in response to voice inquiries. Toll free number listed at site.
- Conversational Computer - Air Flights - Pegasus - http://www.sls.lcs.mit.edu/sls/whatwedo/applications/pegasus.html
An MIT Spoken Language Systems research project which gives airplane flight arrival times in response to voice inquiries. Toll free number listed at site.
- Conversational Computers - Potpourri - http://www.sls.lcs.mit.edu/sls/whatwedo/applications.html
The complete collection of MIT Spoken Language Systems Group conversational computers including ones that tell you about Boston area restaurants, Boston traffic conditions, automobile claasified ads, and air flight prices.
- Nespole - http://nespole.itc.it
"Negotiating through SPOken Language in E-commerce" project aims at contributing to the promotion of economic growth in the e-commerce and e-service area by improving speech to speech translation systems. Italian based research project has European and American participants.
- Microsoft Speech Technology Group - http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/srg/
Engages in research and development of speech technologies in a wide range of applications, including speech recognition (Whisper) and speech synthesis (Whistler) and Dr. Who.
- Russian Speech Database - http://www.stel.ru/speech/speech_database.htm
Russian firm offering a large collection of .wav files containing Russian speaker samples on CD. Useful for voice and speech recognition research.
- National Center for Sign Language and Gesture Resources - http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/cslgr/
Boston University resource for experimantal and analyzed data (especially from native signers of ASL) to facilitate linguistic and computational research on signed languages and the gestural components of spoken languages.
- Speech Synthesis Papers - http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~alex/
Links to research projects and publications of Alex Monaghan. Esoteric and sometimes homey.
- VoiceXML Italian User Group - http://www.vxmlitalia.com/
Developers exchange information, solutions, read news and meet other developers and people interested in Voice and Speech recognition technology. Mixed English/Italian site.
- Speech Group ESAT/KULeuven Belgium - http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~spch/
Site of the Leuven research group on speech technology (speech recognition, speech coding, and speech modification).
- Centre for Speech Technology Research - http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk
A multidisciplinary research centre that undertakes application-oriented speech research mainly in the areas of speech recognition and synthesis. Has implemented useful software, like the Festival speech synthesis system. Interested in collaborating with outside academic or industrial partners.
- Speech Synthesis and Emotion - http://www.geocities.com/richardstibbard/
Doctoral research by Richard Stibbard at the University of Reading, England on emotions in human speech and its applicability to speech synthesis.
- Speech Processing and Signal Analysis Group FEL CTU - http://noel.feld.cvut.cz/speechlab/
Czech Technical University research focusing on enhancement of speech in the running car environment, speech recognition and to creating of databases of natural language. Demo available for doing spectral subtraction on your own data.
- AVIOS - http://www.avios.com/
The Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS) is a research group dedicated to "real world" applications using speech technology.
- IHear Machine Hearing Research - http://www.ihear.com
Services, products and information to enable hearing in machines. Includes some demos and details of models of complex sound pattern recognition.
- Spoken Language Technology at TIFR - http://speech.tifr.res.in
Recognition and synthesis of spoken Indian languages at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Speech workshop scheduled for Jan 2003.
- Voice Web Community - http://www.voicewebcommunity.com
Directory of sites, content, and user groups promoting voice on the web from VoiceXML to SALT.
- Speed of Sound, Inc. - http://www.speedofsound.biz
Performs speech data collection and transcription in order to assist vendors and researchers in the training and evaluation of speech-recognition systems.
- ShortTalk - http://www.research.att.com/~klarlund/ShortTalk/
An unusual method of composing and editing text by speech using shorthand command structures. Includes EmacsListen, a spoken interface for Dragon/Scansoft Naturally Speaking used with emacs text editor.
- Speech Module of an AI Mind - http://mind.sourceforge.net/speech.html
A design for the speech recognition portion of a robot. Source code and theory.
- Pfstar Project - http://pfstar.itc.it
European research consortium investigating multisensorial interaction. Two year project examining technologies for speech-to-speech translation, the detection and expressions of emotional states, and core speech technologies for children begins Oct 2002.
- VoiceXML WOZ - http://liawww.epfl.ch/~portabel/dialogue/
The WOZ (Wizard of Oz) experiment is a method used to help the developers verify their dialog models. Also a multimodal implementation for VoiceXML is given. Free binaries and source code.
- Speech-based and Pervasive Interaction Group - http://www.cs.uta.fi/research/hci/spi/
Project is investigating non-visual, speech only user interfaces, especially focusing on how the interface design can make up for errors in recognition. Primarily Finnish lanquage will be used.
- Multi-modal Input - White Paper - http://tim.griffins.ca/writings/voice_body.html
Outlines the opportunities to synergistically integrate physical and spoken input.
- Speech synthesis and prosody papers - http://www.di.uoa.gr/~dspiliot/
Webpages of Dimitris Spiliotopoulos. Research in speech synthesis, intonation, prosody, natural language, talking robots.
- Farsi speech research - http://mehr.sharif.edu/~ayat
Speech processing in Farsi, especially speech enhancement, by Saeed Ayat, Tehran
- TC-STAR Project: - http://www.tc-star.org
Technology and corpora for speech to speech translation project - includes information and details on the project, partners, public documents and news.
- Greek Dictation - http://www.telecom.tuc.gr/~ntsourak/logotypographos.htm
From the Speech Recognition Group of the Technical University of Crete. Work in progress.
- Recognition Technologies - http://www.recognitiontechnologies.com
Conducts research in the areas of speaker recognition (identification and verification), signature verification, speech recognition and handwriting recognition. Recognition engines and applications are currently being developed.
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