| 1. | Cassette of Phonetic Sounds | | | For speech researchers interested in a standard for phonetic sounds. From University College of London. www.phon.ucl.ac.uk |
| 3. | International Phonetic Association | | | Provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages: the International Phonetic Alphabet. www.arts.gla.ac.uk |
| 5. | 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. www.ldc.upenn.edu |
| 6. | WASPAA'97 Home page | | | IEEE 1997 Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics. www.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU |
| 7. | Tempus-3D | | | An interesting research tool for displaying voice spectra as recorded in .WAV files. www.frye.com |
| 9. | Nespole | | | 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 Euopean and American participants. nespole.itc.it |
| 10. | 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. www.stel.ru |
| 11. | 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. www.bu.edu |
| 12. | Speech Synthesis Papers | | | Links to research projects and publications of Alex Monaghan. Esoteric and sometimes homey. www.compapp.dcu.ie |
| 13. | 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. www.vxmlitalia.com |
| 14. | 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. www.cstr.ed.ac.uk |
| 15. | 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. www.geocities.com |
| 16. | AVIOS | | | applications using speech technology. www.avios.com |
| 17. | 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. www.ihear.com |
| 18. | " | | | project at MIT. Overview of the latest attempts to have useful conversations with a computer. www.sciam.com |
| 19. | 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. www.speedofsound.biz |
| 20. | 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. www.cvs.dk |
| 21. | Greek Dictation | | | From the Speech Recognition Group of the Technical University of Crete. Work in progress. www.telecom.tuc.gr |
| 23. | Pfstar Project | | | n, the detection and expressions of emotional states, and core speech technologies for children begins Oct 2002. pfstar.itc.it |
| 25. | 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. liawww.epfl.ch |
| 26. | 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. www.cs.uta.fi |
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