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For speech researchers interested in a standard for phonetic sounds. From University College of London.
www.phon.ucl.ac.uk
The Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing
University of Sheffield "Moby" project. A public domain word list for several languages, thesaurus, pronunciation guide and the complete works of Shakespeare
www.dcs.shef.ac.uk
International Phonetic Association
Provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages: the International Phonetic Alphabet.
www.arts.gla.ac.uk
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.
www.ldc.upenn.edu
IEEE 1997 Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics.
www.icsi.berkeley.edu
Assistive Speech Technology Research Labs
Minnesota based research startup. Exploring possibilities for people with disabilities through the research of speech technology.
www.astrl.org
"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.
nespole.itc.it
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.
www.research.microsoft.com
Russian firm offering a large collection of .wav files containing Russian speaker samples on CD. Useful for voice and speech recognition research.
www.stel.ru
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.
www.bu.edu
Developers exchange information, solutions, read news and meet other developers and people interested in Voice and Speech recognition technology. Mixed English/Italian site.
www.vxmlitalia.com
Speech Group ESAT/KULeuven Belgium
Site of the Leuven research group on speech technology (speech recognition, speech coding, and speech modification).
www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be
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 outside academic or industrial partners.
www.cstr.ed.ac.uk
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.
noel.feld.cvut.cz
The Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS) is a research group dedicated to "real world" applications using speech technology.
www.avios.com