Digital audio processing and speech synthesisIntroduction to the Java Speech API - A short introduction to speech synthesis with the Java speech API 1.0
http://ociweb.com/jnb/jnbMar2006.html
Speech SynthesisOverview article from free encyclopedia Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis
Speech Synthesis Markup LanguageThe 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/
Tutorial On Speech SynthesisInteractive tutorial of speech synthesis technology by German university.
http://www.ias.et.tu-dresden.de/sprache/lehre/multimedia/tutorial/
Speech Filing SystemTools for Speech Research - SFS provides a computing environment for conducting research into the nature of speech. It comprises free software tools; special file and data formats; subroutine libraries for I/O, signal processing and graphics; use and documentation standards; and special programming languages.
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/sfs/
Chant VoiceMarkupKitChant VoiceMarkupKit component library simplifies the process of generating Microsoft SAPI 4, Microsoft SAPI 5, and W3C SSML (Cepstral) markup language to use with your favorite speech synthesizers. VoiceMarkupKit 2 Win32 Developer Edition includes ActiveX, CDLL, Java, .NET Framework, and VCL component library formats to support all your programming languages and provides sample projects for popular IDEs—such as the latest Visual Studio 2008 from Microsoft.
http://www.chant.net
PolfonetikaPolfonetika - A research and development company specializing in speech and language engineering for Polish. Offers open source tools.
http://polfonetika.com
Cassette of Phonetic SoundsFor speech researchers interested in a standard for phonetic sounds. From University College of London.
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/cassette.htm
Centre for Speech Technology ResearchMultidisciplinary 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
Farsi speech researchSpeech processing in Farsi, especially speech enhancement, by Saeed Ayat, Tehran.
http://ce.sharif.edu/~ayat/
Haskins Laboratory at Yale UniversityConcentrates on speech synthesis, speech perception.
http://www.haskins.yale.edu/
The Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP)A university research program whose areas of research include language modeling, natural language processing, neural auditory processing, acoustic processing, optimality theory, and language acquisition. Information about its research, courses, seminars and research workshops.
http://www.clsp.jhu.edu
Microsoft Speech Technology GroupEngages 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/
MIT Spoken Language Systems GroupResearch initiatives for improving the interaction between people and computers via natural spoken language. Publications, news and events, and profiles of researchers.
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls//sls-blue-noflash.shtml
Russian Speech DatabaseRussian 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
Speech Processing and Signal Analysis Group FEL CTUCzech 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 Recognition Group, Univ. of CambridgeThe Speech Recognition Group is part of the Machine Intelligence Lab at the University of Cambridge. Its primary area of research is large vocabulary speech transcription. Its research interests also include spoken dialogue systems, multimedia document retrieval, speech synthesis and machine learning.
http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/research/speech/
Speech synthesis and prosody papersWebpages of Dimitris Spiliotopoulos. Research in speech synthesis, intonation, prosody, natural language, talking robots.
http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~dspiliot/
STTS - Speech Technology ServicesOffers development of technology for speech synthesis, speech recognition and lexica. Based in Stockholm.
http://stts.se
Vishwac SenaSpeech recognition and synthesis based research activities and research papers. Particular focus on neural speech modeling, speech recognition and synthesis in virtual reality agents and virtual reality dramas.
http://www.vishwacsena.co.in
WASPAA'97IEEE 1997 Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics.
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/waspaa97/
Dictation Without Wires or MonitorGraduate student thesis which may give ideas for difficult environments. Mostly in German, but there is also an English page (click flag). Approach develops a little bit of intelligence between speech recognition and text to speech engine.
http://r5.mnd.fh-wiesbaden.de/stud/berger/index.html
IDIAP Speech Processing GroupResearch and development of recognition and understanding techniques for realistic speaking styles and acoustic conditions, as well as speaker verification and identification techniques.
http://www.idiap.ch/speech_processing.php
Museum of Speech Analysis and SynthesisPictures of early voice synthesizors hosted by UCSC - site seems always under construction.
http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/smus/smus.html
Speech Informatics GroupMain research directions are speech recognition/understanding, methodology of speech dialogue systems, applied systems, hidden Markov algorithms.
http://www.spiiras.nw.ru/speech/
German text-to-speech systemsA commented overview of commercial and scientific TTS (text-to-speech) -systems for the German language with examples.
http://ttssamples.syntheticspeech.de
Speech Language Processing Professional SocietyThis site acts as a coordinating place for meetings and keeps large database about research in the field. Professional name - COCOSDA.
http://www.slt.atr.co.jp/cocosda/
FLITEThis is a Pocket PC 2003 compile of the FLITE 1. 3 speech synthesis engine. FLITE is a subset of the fine Festival engine. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well as an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques.
http://www.viksoe.dk/