Lukol Directory: Computers: Speech Technology: Speech Synthesis

Vaja Thai Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Research and development of Thai Text-to-Speech Synthesis at National Electronics and Computer Center. Established in 1998 to research and develope a natural Thai synthesized speech.
http://www.nectec.or.th/rdi/vaja/

TTS Update
Provides side by side audio samples of various commercial text-to-speech synthesis technology vendors as well as state of the art commentary.
http://www.tmaa.com/tts/index.htm

PanaVox Speech Servers
PanaVox is a text to speech technology for acessibility, advertising, and content enhancement which works on narrowband connected computers and requires no specialized software.
http://panavox.panaserve.net

Speech and Software Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd.
One of India's global IT services and product-engineering companies, providing a wide range of speech-based IT solutions such as automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, computer telephony, IVR, speaker verification and a version of IBM ViaVoice customized for an Indian accent.
http://www.sstil.com

text-talk
Offers limited English and Lithuanian TTS over Web interface with Mbrola speech engine.
http://www.text-talk.com

ATR, Inc.
Computer programming for wireless applications. Web design. Smyrna, Georgia.
http://www.atr.net/

TalkingOnline.com
Online speech-synthesizer with very limited capabilities.
http://www.talkingonline.com

Demonstrations of Simulated Emotional Speech
Collection of links and sound-examples of simulated emotional speech by synthesis.
http://emosamples.syntheticspeech.de/

Voicealizer
Voicealizer enables even the most technophobic web user to get high quality voice recordings onto any web site or blog in minutes using the phone or a microphone.
http://www.voicealizer.com

Analogue Speech Synthesizers
Comprehensive site reviewing Vocoders and musical chorus synthesizers by EMS, Moog, Roland, Korg, and Electro Harmonics, talking chips (Votrax, TI) and speech recognition hardware. Information site rather than sales.
http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/davies/vocpage...

InfoQuick Software Technology Corp.
Focus on speech technology research and development in Chinese language, including TTS and ASR.
http://www.infoquick.com.cn

Emofilt
Prosody-filter to simulate emotional arousal with speech synthesis based on the free-for-non-commercial-use MBROLA synthesis engine available in Java.
http://emofilt.sourceforge.net/

VariTalk
Provides a platform for voice respnose systems.
http://www.varitalk.com

Mindmaker
Sells FlexVoice (TM), a text-to-speech (TTS) engine. Online demo shows good prosidy.
http://www.flexvoice.com/

Tutorial On Speech Synthesis
Interactive tutorial of speech synthesis technology by German university.
http://www.ias.et.tu-dresden.de/sprache/le...

NeXTeNS: Text-to-Speech for Dutch
The NeXTeNS project aims at developing a modern, clean, multi-platform, open source text-to-speech system for Dutch that is freely available for research and education purposes using Mbrola and Festival components. Initiated by University of Nijmegen and the University of Tilburg.
http://nextens.uvt.nl/

German text-to-speech systems
A commented overview of commercial and scientific TTS (text-to-speech) -systems for the German language with examples.
http://ttssamples.syntheticspeech.de

Text-to-Speech, Occidental Communications
Directory of TTS links.
http://www.occidental.com.au/tts.html

ETeX AG - Text-To-Speech & Voice Recordings
German firm selling text-to-speech solutions, based on unit selection and diphones. ETeX uses its recording studio (specialized for voice recordings) for text-to-speech voices, voice prompts, and spoken manuals.
http://www.etex.de

Digalo TTS engine
Text-To-Speech engine for Microsoft Agent and SAPI compliant applications. Available in 7 languages (French, German, Spanish, US English, British, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese). Licensed Elan TTS-engine. Download free trial.
http://www.digalo.com

CompSpeak 2050
Institute for the Study of Talking Computers and Oral Culture. The Institute's mission is to study the social, cultural, and philosophical implications of talking computers and voice recognition technology. Site taking orders for a pre-publishing book having a provocative viewpoint on the impact of talking computers.
http://www.compspeak2050.org

Voice Synthesis IC and Speech Synthesizer chips
TextSpeak(tm) speech synthesis chip sets and plug-in modules accept RS-232 text, keyboard and wireless input. Low cost, unlimited vocabulary, designed for consumer and VARs. Purchase online.
http://www.textspeak.com/oemtts.htm

Speech Synthesis Markup Language
The current version of the (draft) proposal for an XML-based Speech Synthesis Markup Language, as part of the W3C's Speech Interface Framework. This is an industry standard in the making.
http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/

SpeechArabia
Provides Arabic / multi language voice interface solutions, for individuals & corporate. Initial offerings focus on tect to speech applications.
http://www.speecharabia.com

Speech Synthesis
Overview article from free encyclopedia Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthe...

Audio Generator for the web
Site offeres technique to add your own voice to web pages and e-mails.
http://audiogenerator.com/

Moehler's Speech Synthesis Examples
Commented examples of speech synthesis for 25 languages.
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~moehler/s...

RC Systems
Text to speech synthesis products. Boards, modules, and chips. Downloadable data sheets and product information.
http://www.rcsys.com

Web Site Speech Plug-in
Site provides a free, cross platform (Windows and MacOS), cross browser (Netscape and IE) plug-in that gives web sites the ability to talk by transforming text to speech.
http://www.speaksforitself.com

Introduction to the Java Speech API
A short introduction to speech synthesis with the Java speech API 1.0
http://ociweb.com/jnb/jnbMar2006.html

Sub Topics:
Programming Agents
Desktop Readers
Speech Synthesis Cores


Related Topics:
Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Phonetics and Phonology



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