General Information on Speech Technology
Other www Speech and Language pages
Australia
- Sydney University Speech Group.
- Speech, Hearing and Language Research Centre at Macquarie University. Contact addresses only.
Belgium
- ELIS Speech Lab Speech recorgnition, labelling and TTS (one page) [ see Eurovocs in demo section]
- Digital Speech Processing Laboratory of the Royal Military Academy.
- TTS
research group in the MULTITEL - TCTS Lab at the Faculte polytechnique de Mons.
Canada
- SOCS Speech Lab at McGill University. Speech recognition.
- Telecommunications &
Signal Processing Laboratory at McGill University. Speech coding
and speech enhancement with abstracts of papers and links to speech
file software accessable by ftp.
Denmark
- The Center for Person Kommunikation at Aalborg.Text on speech projects (one page)
Finland
- Neural networks research Centre, Helsinki University of TechnologySpeech recognition and Clinical voice analysis using Self organizing maps and Learning vector quantisation. Free software. See also Jari Kangas research interests.
France
- ICP at GrenobleSpeech synthesis
and lip synthesis (see demos).
Germany
- The Neural Net Speech Group at University of Karlsruhe
- The Institute for Computational Linguistics at the University of Koblenz
- The Institute of Phonetics and Speech Communication - University of Munich
Japan
- ATR ITL.
- ATR Advanced Telephony
Research Labs.
- AIST Shikano-Lab.
- Aizu Univ. Sugiyama-Lab.
- Kyoto Univ. Dohshita-Lab.
- Mizoguchi Lab at the Institute of Science and Industrial Research, Osaka University.Spoken language
processing including concept-to-speech and dialogue processing.
- Dictation WG
Netherlands
- UVA - the Institute of Phonetic Sciences, Amsterdam
Sweden
- Speech Communication and Music Acoustics at KTH, Stockholm
Switzerland
- Institut Dalle Molle d'Intelligence Artificelle Perceptive (IDIAP)Neural Network research including speech and speaker
recognition. No online info.
UK
- The Synth List at University of Birmingham
- Natural Language Processing group at Cambridge
- Speech Vision and Robotics Group at Cambridge
- Dundee Microcentre at the University of Dundee, Scotland
- The Centre for Speech Technology Research at University of Edinburgh
- Centre for Communications Interface Research at the University of Edinburgh
- Human Communication Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh
- Communication and Neuroscience at Keele University
- The Speech Laboratory at The University of Leeds
- Speech Research Laboratory at Reading UK
- Speech and Hearing research at the University of Sheffield
- Vision Speech and Signal Processing Group at Southampton University
- Vision Speech and Signal Processing Group at the University of Surrey
- Phonetics and Linguistics at University College London
- Speech Research at the University of York
- Real-time visual displays for the voice (York University Dept of Electronics)
USA
- Signal Processing Lab at Telecomcations Research Centre, Arizona State University
- The Neural Net Speech Group at Carnegie Mellon
- Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford
- Perceptual Science Laboratory at University of California Santa Cruz
- International Computer Science Institute Realization Group at Berkeley CA
- Haskins laboratories
- Automatic Speech Recognition Lab at the University of Illinois
- Speech Research program at duPont Institute US
- Speech systems lab at MIT
- Center for Spoken Language Understanding at Oregon Graduate Institute
Commercial Research
- Malcolm Slaney StuffSoftware models and papers for auditory modeling at Interval and Apple
- sun microsystems - SpeechActs
- Canon Research Centre Europe Speech and natural Language processing.
- Embratel Brasil's Telecommunications Company. No Speech Technology pages.
- Command Corporation
- Dialogic Corporation
Speech recognition, TTS and other products
- STAR Speech technology Research Laboratory at SRI international
- Bolt Beranek and Newman including work on the Hark recogniser.
- Dragon Systems Product
news, technical support, publications and job openings.
- Voice Processing Inc Speech
recognition technology and developer training
- Computational Phonology
- Berkeley Phonology Laboratory at UC
- CCRMA at Stanford
- comp.speech archives at Cambridge
- Klatt, RSynth and CELP source code
- Linguistic Data Consortium
- WAVELETS
- ESPRIT - SpeechMaps (analysis and synthesis) at Lausanne
- Hearing, Speech and Language [infogopher.york.ac.uk]
- Auditory Perception of Speech [infogopher.york.ac.uk]
- NSF Speech Grants
- NIH Speech Grants
- SIL Freeware International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) fonts (Windows/Mac)
- comp.speech
- comp.dsp
- comp.ai.nat-lang
- sci.lang
- SALT Speech and Language Technology mailing list.
Miscellaneous
- UBILAB - The Union Bank of Switzerland IT LaboratoryHCI stuff - no speech research
- A great
collection of dictionaries at University of Passau
- Neural Net Information from TU Eindhoven
- DTI Neural Computing
Technology Transfer
- The Computation and Language E-Print Archive
- Natural Language Software Registry
- Signal Processing Home Page
- Speech Synthesis Refs from Melvyl
- VERBMOBIL" Combined research effort within Germany to produce a mobile system for the translation of spontaneous speech
- Colibri
- Elsevier Science : Speech Communication
- ELSNET (European Network in Language and Speech)
- NMSU : The Consortium for Lexical Research
- NMSU : The Association for Computational Linguistics
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Workshop on
Very Large Corpora
- ESCA (European Speech Communication Association)
-
Journal of Sound and Vibration (contents of recent issues) from
Academic Press.
-
Journal of Phonetics (contents of recent issues) from
Academic Press.
-
Computer Speech and Language (contents of recent issues) from
Academic Press.
- RELATOR . European Language Resources Association - 4th Framework information.
- Cocosda Coordinating committee on speech databases and speech I/O systems assessment
- IEEE The institute of electrical and electronic engineers including previews of publications.
- EPSRC Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council including programme information.
- Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals (BAS) - University of Munich, Germany.
- Speech Corpora: Center for Spoken Language Understanding - Oregon Graduate Institute.
- Linguistic Data Consortium.
- LDC Linguistic Data Consortium.
- The Natural Language Software Registry. at DFKI Saarbrueken.
- ELRA European Language Resources Association. A European repository for EU-funded language resources.
- NEURAL NET FAQ
- HUMAN AUDIO PERCEPTION FAQ
- AUDIO FILE FORMAT FAQ
- SPEECH FAQ
- MIT Media Lab Masters thesis,Janet Cahn Expressive speech from DecTalk3 using Af fectEditor to manipulate pitch, timing, voice quality and articulation. 3 examples.
- Say TTS demo
interactive
- synthesis examples at ICP CNRS
- AsTeR (LateX to speech demo) at Cornell
- Synthesis examples at KTH, Sweden
- Interactive TTS demo at Duisburg University
- ELIS group Eurovocs commercial TTS examples. American, Dutch, German,
French, Spanish 8k and 11k. [200k files!] Synthesiser by Technologie &
Revalidatie and TTS by Lernout & Hauspie.
- YorkTalk synthesis examples from the University of York
-
Analogue vowel synthesis examples
- Sun Speechacts featuring BBN's Hark recognizer and Centigram's TruVoice synthesizer along with our Swiftus natural language processor
- Speech recognition at cambridge
- Speech synthesis at Cambridge Concatenation of HMM state segments using PSOLA. No
hand segmentation required.
- MBROLA Free TTS system software and diphone databases.
Ths section is still under construction.
Austria
Australia
- Linguistics Department at Macquarie University. Contact addresses only.
Belgium
- Centre for Computational Linguistics at the University of Leuven.
- Computer Science Department at the University of Namur. They have a research group on Human Computer Interface and Multimedia Communication.
Denmark
France
Germany
- Dept of Linguistic Data Processing at the University of Köln.Extensive pages covering research, lectures, courses and a further list of links.
- The Institute for Computational Linguistics (in German) at the University of Koblenz"
- Computational Linguistics at the University of Saarbruecken"
- Phonetics at the University of Saarbruecken"
South Africa
- Dept of
Linguistics at the
University of Natal,
Durban.
Staff, courses, conference details and a small page of
further
links.
Sweden
-
Computational Linguistics at
Göteborg University
-
Dept of Linguistics at
Göteborg University
-
Department of Linguistics at
Stockholm
University.
UK
-
Phonetics and Linguistics at
UCL, London.
-
Dept of Linguistic Science at the
University of Reading,
UK.
Staff details, prospectus and the Speech Research
Lab.
- School of Oriental and African Studies.
United States
-
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at
Brown University.
- The Consortium for
Lexical Re
search.
-
Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas.
Institute interested in the study of minority languages
around the wo
rld.
- Dept of
Linguistics at the
University of Rochester. Extensive pages including
departmental info,
and a further
list of
links
.
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Department of Linguistics at
the Ohio State University.
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