Perceptual Science Laboratory

LORIA/Speech Group

These links and descriptions were grabbed from the Open Directory Project.

Assistive Speech Technology Research Labs
- Minnesota based research startup. Exploring possibilities for people with disabilities through the research of speech technology.

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

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

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.

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

Conversational Computer - Weather - Jupiter
- 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.

Conversational Computers - Potpourri
- 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, air flight prices etc.

Haskins Laboratory at Yale University
- Concentrates on speech synthesis, speech perception.

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

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

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.

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.

National Institute for Telecommunications Signal and Imaging Department
- Mostly signal processing of speech.

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 Euopean and American participants.

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.

Speech Group ESAT/KULeuven Belgium
- Site of the Leuven research group on speech technology (speech recognition, speech coding, speech modification, etc.)

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.

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

Speech Synthesis Papers
- Links to research projects and publications of Alex Monaghan. Esoteric and sometimes homey.

Speech Technology Research Resource List
- List of web sites related to phonetics and speech sciences: meetings, research centers, electronic newsletters, journals and publishers

Speech User Interfaces
- 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.

Tempus-3D
- An interesting research tool for displaying voice spectra as recorded in .WAV files.

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.

VoiceXML Italian User Group
- VoiceXML Italian user group site where Italian VoiceXML developers will find and exchange information, solutions, read news and meet other developers and people interested in VoiceXML and Voice & Speech recognition technology. Mixed English/Italian site.

Scientific American -August 1999 Feature Article: "Talking with your computer"
- State of the art "Oxygen" project at MIT. Overview of the latest attempts to have useful conversations with a computer. (August 1, 1999)