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Haskins Laboratory at Yale University
Concentrates on speech synthesis, speech perception.
http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Haskins/MISC/special.html
Cassette of Phonetic Sounds
For speech researchers interested in a standard for phonetic sounds. From University College of London.
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/cassette.htm
The Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing
University of Shefield "Moby" project. A public domain word list for several languages, thesaurus, pronunciation guide and the complete works of Shakespeare
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/
Spoken Language Technology at TIFR
Recognition and synthesis of spoken Indian languages at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Speech workshop scheduled for Jan 2003.
http://speech.tifr.res.in
Voice Web Community
Directory of sites, content, and user groups promoting voice on the web from VoiceXML to SALT.
http://www.voicewebcommunity.com
Media Analyzer
Carl Verner Skou markets a Windows based research tool, Qualitative Media Analyze, that helps tabulate occurrences of phrases and themes in audio and video file formats avoiding the need for manual transcription.
http://www.cvs.dk/
ACE: Artificial Conversation Entity
Free download which receives input from a microphone and responds, either by voice output or executing Windows system command. Powered by the ALICE conversation engine and MS SAPI 5.1.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/rtk124/projects/ACE.htm
Greek Dictation
From the Speech Recognition Group of the Technical University of Crete. Work in progress.
http://www.telecom.tuc.gr/~ntsourak/logotypographos.htm
ShortTalk
An unusual method of composing text by speech using shorthand command structures.
http://www.research.att.com/~klarlund/ShortTalk/
Speed of Sound, Inc.
Performs speech data collection and transcription in order to assist vendors and researchers in the training and evaluation of speech-recognition systems.
http://www.speedofsound.biz
International Phonetic Association
Provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages: the International Phonetic Alphabet.
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html
National Institute for Telecommunications Signal and Imaging Department
Mostly signal processing of speech.
http://www-sim.int-evry.fr/
Univ. Of Pennsylvania Speech Resource
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.
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/
Speech Technology Research Resource List
List of web sites related to phonetics and speech sciences: meetings, research centers, electronic newsletters, journals and publishers
http://fonsg3.let.uva.nl/Other_pages.html#Meetings
WASPAA'97 Home page
IEEE 1997 Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics.
http://www.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU/waspaa97/
Tempus-3D
An interesting research tool for displaying voice spectra as recorded in .WAV files.
http://www.frye.com/products/tempus/tempus.html
Conversational Computer - Weather - Jupiter
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.
http://www.sls.lcs.mit.edu/sls/whatwedo/applications/jupiter.html
Speech Module of an AI Mind
A design for the speech recognition portion of a robot. Source code and theory.
http://mind.sourceforge.net/speech.html
Pfstar Project
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.
http://pfstar.itc.it
Mathematical Modeling of Prosody
A tutorial on intonation modeling and prosody, along with research papers and results.
http://prosodies.org
VoiceXML WOZ
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.
http://liawww.epfl.ch/~portabel/dialogue/
Speech-based and Pervasive Interaction Group
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.
http://www.cs.uta.fi/research/hci/spi/
Multi-modal Input - White Paper
Outlines the opportunities to synergistically integrate physical and spoken input.
http://tim.griffins.ca/writings/voice_body.html
Speech synthesis and prosody papers
Webpages of Dimitris Spiliotopoulos. Research in speech synthesis, intonation, prosody, natural language, talking robots.
http://www.di.uoa.gr/~dspiliot/
Farsi speech research
Speech processing in Farsi, especially speech enhancement, by Saeed Ayat, Tehran
http://mehr.sharif.edu/~ayat
TC-STAR Project:
Technology and corpora for speech to speech translation project - includes information and details on the project, partners, public documents and news.
http://www.tc-star.org
STTS S�dermalms talteknologiservice
Specializes in research and development in speech and language technology, computational linguistics. Based in Stockholm.
http://stts.se
Conversational Computer - Air Flights - Pegasus
An MIT Spoken Language Systems research project which gives airplane flight arrival times in response to voice inquiries. Toll free number listed at site.
http://www.sls.lcs.mit.edu/sls/whatwedo/applications/pegasus.html
Conversational Computers - Potpourri
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.
http://www.sls.lcs.mit.edu/sls/whatwedo/applications.html
Assistive Speech Technology Research Labs
Minnesota based research startup. Exploring possibilities for people with disabilities through the research of speech technology.
http://www.astrl.org
Nespole
"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.
http://nespole.itc.it
Microsoft Speech Technology Group
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.
http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/srg/
Russian Speech Database
Russian firm offering a large collection of .wav files containing Russian speaker samples on CD. Useful for voice and speech recognition research.
http://www.stel.ru/speech/speech_database.htm
National Center for Sign Language and Gesture Resources
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.
http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/cslgr/
Speech Synthesis Papers
Links to research projects and publications of Alex Monaghan. Esoteric and sometimes homey.
http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~alex/
VoiceXML Italian User Group
Developers exchange information, solutions, read news and meet other developers and people interested in Voice and Speech recognition technology. Mixed English/Italian site.
http://www.vxmlitalia.com/
Speech Group ESAT/KULeuven Belgium
Site of the Leuven research group on speech technology (speech recognition, speech coding, and speech modification).
http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~spch/
Centre for Speech Technology Research
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.
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk
Speech Synthesis and Emotion
Doctoral research by Richard Stibbard at the University of Reading, England on emotions in human speech and its applicability to speech synthesis.
http://www.geocities.com/richardstibbard/
Speech Processing and Signal Analysis Group FEL CTU
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.
http://noel.feld.cvut.cz/speechlab/
AVIOS
The Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS) is a research group dedicated to "real world" applications using speech technology.
http://www.avios.com/
IHear Machine Hearing Research
Services, products and information to enable hearing in machines. Includes some demos and details of models of complex sound pattern recognition.
http://www.ihear.com
Scientific American -August 1999 Feature Article: "Talking with your computer"
State of the art "Oxygen" project at MIT. Overview of the latest attempts to have useful conversations with a computer.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0009D2B7-F2E6-1C72-9B81809EC588EF21
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