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» (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

» AVIOS    The Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS) is a research group dedicated to "real world" applications using speech technology.    http://www.avios.com/

» Assistive Speech Technology Research Labs    Minnesota based research startup. Exploring possibilities for people with disabilities through the research of speech technology.    http://www.members.aol.com/rickp007/

» Automatic Speech Recognition    Creates a freely available, modular, state-of-the-art speech recognition system that can be easily modified to suit research needs.    http://www.ece.msstate.edu/research/isip/projects/speech/

» 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/cassette.htm

» 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    http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk

» Farsi speech research    Speech processing in Farsi, especially speech enhancement, by Saeed Ayat, Tehran    http://mehr.sharif.edu/~ayat

» Greek Dictation    From the Speech Recognition Group of the Technical University of Crete. Work in progress.    http://www.telecom.tuc.gr/~ntsourak/logotypographos.htm

» Haskins Laboratory at Yale University    Concentrates on speech synthesis, speech perception.    http://www.haskins.yale.edu/index.html

» 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

» 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

» LIMSI Spoken Language Processing Group    Main activities of the spoken language processing group cover the following domains: speech recognition, speech understanding, dialog systems, speaker and language recognition, speech translation and audio indexation.    http://www.limsi.fr/tlp/

» Liberated Learning Project    Technology which automatically transcribes spoken language and displays it as readable text. Developing speech recognition technology as a means to accessible and barrier-free learning.    http://www.liberatedlearning.com/

» MIT Spoken Language Systems Group    Research 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

» 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/srg/

» NIST Speech Group    The Speech Group at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) primarily engages in developing measurement methods, providing reference materials, coordinating community-wide benchmark tests within the research and development community and in    http://www.nist.gov/speech/index.htm

» 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/

» 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 Europ    http://nespole.itc.it

» 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

» 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

» Research Paper on Rich Transcription    Rich Transcription of speech, speech and speaker recognition, naturallanguage processing    http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~yangl

» 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.htm

» STTS - Speech Technology Services    Offers development of technology for speech synthesis, speech recognition and lexica. Based in Stockholm.    http://stts.se

» 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.be/psi/spraak/

» 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

» 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 Recognition Group, Univ. of Cambridge    The 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 re    http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/research/speech/

» Speech Structure Recognition    Speech recognition based on inner structure. Pattern recognition method to estimate which the inner structure of the spoken phoneme.    http://www.geocities.jp/onsei2007/index-e.html

» Speech at Carnegie Mellon University    Dedicated to speech technology research, development, and deployment. Offers open source speech software, speech and language projects, publications, and resources.    http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/

» Speech synthesis and prosody papers    Webpages of Dimitris Spiliotopoulos. Research in speech synthesis, intonation, prosody, natural language, talking robots.    http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~dspiliot/

» 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

» 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

» 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 a    http://www.clsp.jhu.edu

» 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/

» Vishwac Sena    Speech 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

» 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/

» WASPAA'97 Home page    IEEE 1997 Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics.    http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/waspaa97/