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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
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
Recognition Technologies
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.
http://www.recognitiontechnologies.com
Haskins Laboratory at Yale University
Concentrates on speech synthesis, speech perception.
http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Haskins/MISC/s...
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/
Greek Dictation
From the Speech Recognition Group of the Technical University of Crete. Work in progress.
http://www.telecom.tuc.gr/~ntsourak/logoty...
STTS - Speech Technology Services
Offers development of technology for speech synthesis, speech recognition and lexica. 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/ap...
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
WASPAA'97 Home page
IEEE 1997 Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics.
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/waspaa97/
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....
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/casse...
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/ap...
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/
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
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...
Multi-modal Input - White Paper
Outlines the opportunities to synergistically integrate physical and spoken input.
http://tim.griffins.ca/writings/voice_body...
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
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/
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
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/
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
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/
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
Research Paper on Rich Transcription
Rich Transcription of speech, speech and speaker recognition, naturallanguage processing
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~yangl
Farsi speech research
Speech processing in Farsi, especially speech enhancement, by Saeed Ayat, Tehran
http://mehr.sharif.edu/~ayat
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/ap...
(USA) Responsive Virtual Human Technology
An NSF funded project led by Research Triangle Institute studying spoken language interaction with virtual characters.
http://www.rvht.info
The Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing
University of Sheffield "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/M...
Mathematical Modeling of Prosody
A tutorial on intonation modeling and prosody, along with research papers and results.
http://prosodies.org
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/
Speech Synthesis Papers
Links to research projects and publications of Alex Monaghan. Esoteric and sometimes homey.
http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~alex/
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/
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/
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
Voice Web Community
Directory of sites, content, and user groups promoting voice on the web from VoiceXML to SALT.
http://www.voicewebcommunity.com
AVIOS
The Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS) is a research group dedicated to "real world" applications using speech technology.
http://www.avios.com/
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