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.

An NSF funded project led by Research Triangle Institute studying spoken language interaction with virtual characters.

Concentrates on speech synthesis, speech perception.

For speech researchers interested in a standard for phonetic sounds. From University College of London.

University of Shefield "Moby" project. A public domain word list for several languages, thesaurus, pronunciation guide and the complete works of Shakespeare

Provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages: the International Phonetic Alphabet.

IEEE 1997 Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics.

An interesting research tool for displaying voice spectra as recorded in .WAV files.

An MIT Spoken Language Systems research project which gives the weather in 500+ worldwide cities in response to voice inquiries. Toll free number listed at site.

An MIT Spoken Language Systems research project which gives airplane flight arrival times in response to voice inquiries. Toll free number listed at site.

The complete collection of MIT Spoken Language Systems Group conversational computers including ones that tell you about Boston area restaurants, Boston traffic conditions, automobile claasified ads, and air flight prices.

Minnesota based research startup. Exploring possibilities for people with disabilities through the research of speech technology.

"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 European and American participants.

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.

Russian firm offering a large collection of .wav files containing Russian speaker samples on CD. Useful for voice and speech recognition research.

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.

Links to research projects and publications of Alex Monaghan. Esoteric and sometimes homey.

Developers exchange information, solutions, read news and meet other developers and people interested in Voice and Speech recognition technology. Mixed English/Italian site.

Site of the Leuven research group on speech technology (speech recognition, speech coding, and speech modification).

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.

Doctoral research by Richard Stibbard at the University of Reading, England on emotions in human speech and its applicability to speech synthesis.

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.

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

Services, products and information to enable hearing in machines. Includes some demos and details of models of complex sound pattern recognition.

Recognition and synthesis of spoken Indian languages at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Speech workshop scheduled for Jan 2003.

Directory of sites, content, and user groups promoting voice on the web from VoiceXML to SALT.

Performs speech data collection and transcription in order to assist vendors and researchers in the training and evaluation of speech-recognition systems.

An unusual method of composing and editing text by speech using shorthand command structures. Includes EmacsListen, a spoken interface for Dragon/Scansoft Naturally Speaking used with emacs text editor.

A design for the speech recognition portion of a robot. Source code and theory.

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.

A tutorial on intonation modeling and prosody, along with research papers and results.

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.

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.

Outlines the opportunities to synergistically integrate physical and spoken input.

Webpages of Dimitris Spiliotopoulos. Research in speech synthesis, intonation, prosody, natural language, talking robots.

Speech processing in Farsi, especially speech enhancement, by Saeed Ayat, Tehran

Technology and corpora for speech to speech translation project - includes information and details on the project, partners, public documents and news.

Specializes in research and development in speech and language technology, computational linguistics. Based in Stockholm.

From the Speech Recognition Group of the Technical University of Crete. Work in progress.

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.

Rich Transcription of speech, speech and speaker recognition, naturallanguage processing