| 1. | ESOPOS-Greek TTS | | | An unusual downloadable program for Win 95/98 that does Greek text-to-speech processing. esopos.ee.auth.gr |
| 2. | The MBROLA PROJECT | | | Multi-lingual text to speech synthesis. Free multi platform software download for research purposes. tcts.fpms.ac.be |
| 3. | 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. www.compspeak2050.org |
| 4. | The Festvox Project | | | Free software tools and documentation for building new speech synthesis voices in English and other languages. From Carnegie Mellon. www.festvox.org |
| 5. | 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). Download free trial. www.digalo.com |
| 6. | German speech synthesis | | | Speech synthesis group at the IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany: Online demo, speaking metro information system, various speech synthesis example sand some downloads. Research is concentrating on getting good prosidy (inflection). www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de |
| 7. | RC Systems | | | Text to speech synthesis products. Boards, modules, and chips. Downloadable data sheets and product information. www.rcsys.com |
| 8. | Mindmaker | | | Sells FlexVoice (TM), a text-to-speech (TTS) engine. Online demo shows good prosidy. www.flexvoice.com |
| 9. | Infovox Synthetic Speech | | | Text to speech for American and British English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish and Icelandic. Interfaces for MS Windows, Dos, Apple Mac. www.infovox.se |
| 10. | Babel Techonologies | | | Multilingual text to speech technologies for telecom, embedded and multimedia applications. Available in 17 languages. www.babeltech.com |
| 11. | VoxWorx | | | Site provides a way to capture the text of any other arbitrary site URL and read it to you via RealAudio technology. www.voxworx.com |
| 12. | 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. www.w3.org |
| 13. | CSLU Speech Synthesis | | | Center for speech synthesis research, with demos and downloads available. Has a singing voice synthesis project. cslu.cse.ogi.edu |
| 14. | E-Speech | | | Unusual text-to-speech synthesis offerings including name pronunciation software for speech recognition dictionaries and other custom applications. www.espeech.com |
| 15. | Reading Machine | | | Reads text aloud using text-to-speech, converts text into mp3/wave files for use with any cd player or MP3 player. Extracts text from one web page or whole web sites. Text is automatically organized into books and chapters for later use. Gives control over the voice, and the ability to clean up text automatically. www.ultimatereadingmachine.com |
| 16. | The Reader | | | Hauspie core components. Download software from site. Demo available. www.thereader.com.ar |
| 17. | T Natural Voices | | | Features a line of speech synthesis products. Demos on the site. www.naturalvoices.att.com |
| 19. | Desktop Text to Speech Utility | | | CyberBuddy - a freeware utility program that uses MicroSoft Agents to do Instant Messaging with speech and animation, reminders, time of day, check email, news reports, weather, stock quotes, text reading, and ICQ status reporting. thecyberbuddy.com |
| 20. | FreeTTS - Java speech synthesis | | | A speech synthesis system written entirely in the Java(TM) programming language. Based upon Flite: a smallrun-time speech synthesis engine developed at Carnegie Mellon University and derived from the Festival Speech Synthesis System from the University of Edinburgh and the FestVox project from Carnegie Mellon University. freetts.sourceforge.net |
| 21. | e-rhetor | | | Develops applications and systems that support the Greek language. Current products include a series of high quality Text-to-Speech products for the telecommunications and multimedia market. www.e-rhetor.com |
| 22. | Fonix SpeakThis | | | Subscription service that lets you add speech to your website using automatically generated HTML you paste into your pages. Support for many voices and languages. www.speakthis.com |
| 23. | Sakrament | | | Speech recognition and synthesis software company, particularly Russian language. www.sakrament-speech.com |
| 24. | 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. web.inter.nl.net |
| 25. | Cepstral Speech Synthesis | | | Small footprint text-to-speech synthesis suitable for mobile, handheld, and wearable computers. Provides a variety of voices and accents. Effective on line demo of speech quality. www.cepstral.com |
| 26. | ReadPlease | | | Text-to-speech software for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP. Freeware and commercial versions. www.readplease.com |
| 27. | Advanced Technology and Research | | | Markets a variety of speech products for industry including voiceprint, text to speech and airport security systems. Good online text to speech demo. www.atr.net |
| 28. | Smart Butler | | | Add-on for instant messenger programs that enables users to listen to incoming messages without reading them. smart-butler.com |
| 29. | 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. www.tmaa.com |
| 30. | 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. www.sstil.com |
| 31. | Speech-Ware | | | Danish company selling Danish natural language text-to-speech and speech recognition products. www.speech-ware.dk |
| 32. | Sayz Me | | | An open-source text-to-speech application for Windows. Uses Microsoft speech API. sayzme.sourceforge.net |
| 33. | 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. www.etex.de |
| 34. | 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. www.textspeak.com |
| 36. | Audio Bookmaker | | | Converts texts using different human voices, saving speech to WAV or MP3 files. Speaking clock and other text-to-speech utilities. www.audiobookmaker.com |
| 37. | 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. panavox.panaserve.net |
| 39. | 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. nextens.uvt.nl |
| 40. | Matrubhasha | | | A Unicode and MBROLA based software solution for text to speechsSynthesis (TTS) in Indian languages. www.ncb.ernet.in |
| 41. | Elan Speech | | | Elan Speech, dedicated global provider of text-to-speech (TTS) technologies for telecommunications, multimedia, embedded systems and mobile solutions. Provides 2 ranges of speech synthesis technologies for high quality and low footprint requirements. Many languages and voices available for various platforms and operating systems. www.elanspeech.com |
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