Web Directory

» Center for Spoken Language Understanding
   Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology has created a public resource for experimenters. Download trial software for speech recognizers.
   http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/

» Museum of Speech Analysis and Synthesis
   Pictures of early voice synthesizors hosted by UCSC - site seems always under construction.
   http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/smus/smus.html

» Rapid-Deployment Text-to-Speech in the DIPLOMAT System
   Article describing the rapid-deployment Text-to-Speech processes and development timeframe used in the DIPLOMAT System.
   http://www.shlrc.mq.edu.au/proceedings/icslp98/PDF/AUTHOR/SL980868.PDF

» SPIRIT Speech Technologies
   Has advanced software algorithms for speech compression, enhancement, recognition and speaker identification (i.e., voice recognition).
   http://www.spiritcorp.com/

» Speech Analysis
   A detailed paper describing speech recognition technology.
   http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~ajr/SA95/

» Speech Informatics Group
   Main research directions are speech recognition/understanding, methodology of speech dialogue systems, applied systems, hidden Markov algorithms.
   http://www.spiiras.nw.ru/speech/

» Torch Library
   A library in C++ for developing Open Source speech and machine learning applications. The code is under the Gnu Public License.
   http://www.torch.ch/

» VOICEBOX: Speech Processing Toolbox for MATLAB
   A voice processing toolbox for Matlab, very useful for prototyping algorithms and has routines to do most of the basic useful tasks in speech.
   http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/hp/staff/dmb/voicebox/voicebox.html

» comp.speech WWW site
   Provides a range of information on speech technology, including speech synthesis, speech recognition, speech coding, and related material. Pages look a little old (1997) but a very wide range of FAQ here. Algorithm for building simple recognizers.
   http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/comp.speech/