Automatic Speech Recognition
- Creates a freely available, modular, state-of-the-art speech recognition system that can be easily modified to suit research needs.
- http://www.ece.msstate.edu/research/isip/projects/speech/

Katholieke Universiteit Center for Processing Speech and Images
- Description of research projects, educational information, and special links.
- http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/psi/spraak/

Speech synthesis and prosody papers
- Webpages of Dimitris Spiliotopoulos. Research in speech synthesis, intonation, prosody, natural language, talking robots.
- http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~dspiliot/

MIT Spoken Language Systems Group
- Research initiatives for improving the interaction between people and computers via natural spoken language. Publications, news and events, and profiles of researchers.
- http://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls//sls-blue-noflash.shtml

Speech Recognition Group, Univ. of Cambridge
- The Speech Recognition Group is part of the Machine Intelligence Lab at the University of Cambridge. Its primary area of research is large vocabulary speech transcription. Its research interests also include spoken dialogue systems, multimedia document re
- http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/research/speech/

NIST Speech Group
- The Speech Group at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) primarily engages in developing measurement methods, providing reference materials, coordinating community-wide benchmark tests within the research and development community and in
- http://www.nist.gov/speech/index.htm

The Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP)
- A university research program whose areas of research include language modeling, natural language processing, neural auditory processing, acoustic processing, optimality theory, and language acquisition. Information about its research, courses, seminars a
- http://www.clsp.jhu.edu

Haskins Laboratory at Yale University
- Concentrates on speech synthesis, speech perception.
- http://www.haskins.yale.edu/index.html

LIMSI Spoken Language Processing Group
- Main activities of the spoken language processing group cover the following domains: speech recognition, speech understanding, dialog systems, speaker and language recognition, speech translation and audio indexation.
- http://www.limsi.fr/tlp/

Liberated Learning Project
- Technology which automatically transcribes spoken language and displays it as readable text. Developing speech recognition technology as a means to accessible and barrier-free learning.
- http://www.liberatedlearning.com/

Speech at Carnegie Mellon University
- Dedicated to speech technology research, development, and deployment. Offers open source speech software, speech and language projects, publications, and resources.
- http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/

Vishwac Sena
- Speech recognition and synthesis based research activities and research papers. Particular focus on neural speech modeling, speech recognition and synthesis in virtual reality agents and virtual reality dramas.
- http://www.vishwacsena.co.in

VoiceXML WOZ
- 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.
- http://icwww.epfl.ch/~portabel/dialogue/

Research Paper on Rich Transcription
- Rich Transcription of speech, speech and speaker recognition, naturallanguage processing
- http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~yangl

Recognition Technologies
- 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.
- http://www.recognitiontechnologies.com

(USA) Responsive Virtual Human Technology
- An NSF funded project led by Research Triangle Institute studying spoken language interaction with virtual characters.
- http://www.rvht.info

Greek Dictation
- From the Speech Recognition Group of the Technical University of Crete. Work in progress.
- http://www.telecom.tuc.gr/~ntsourak/logotypographos.htm

STTS - Speech Technology Services
- Offers development of technology for speech synthesis, speech recognition and lexica. Based in Stockholm.
- http://stts.se

TC-STAR Project:
- Technology and corpora for speech to speech translation project - includes information and details on the project, partners, public documents and news.
- http://www.tc-star.org

Farsi speech research
- Speech processing in Farsi, especially speech enhancement, by Saeed Ayat, Tehran
- http://mehr.sharif.edu/~ayat

Speech-based and Pervasive Interaction Group
- 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.
- http://www.cs.uta.fi/research/hci/spi/

Mathematical Modeling of Prosody
- A tutorial on intonation modeling and prosody, along with research papers and results.
- http://prosodies.org

Pfstar Project
- 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.
- http://pfstar.itc.it

Speech Module of an AI Mind
- A design for the speech recognition portion of a robot. Source code and theory.
- http://mind.sourceforge.net/speech.html

Speed of Sound, Inc.
- Performs speech data collection and transcription in order to assist vendors and researchers in the training and evaluation of speech-recognition systems.
- http://www.speedofsound.biz

IHear Machine Hearing Research
- Services, products and information to enable hearing in machines. Includes some demos and details of models of complex sound pattern recognition.
- http://www.ihear.com

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

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.
- http://noel.feld.cvut.cz/speechlab/

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
- http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk

Speech Group ESAT/KULeuven Belgium
- Site of the Leuven research group on speech technology (speech recognition, speech coding, and speech modification).
- http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~spch/

VoiceXML Italian User Group
- Developers exchange information, solutions, read news and meet other developers and people interested in Voice and Speech recognition technology. Mixed English/Italian site.
- http://www.vxmlitalia.com/

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.
- http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/cslgr/

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.
- http://www.stel.ru/speech/speech_database.htm

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.
- http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/srg/

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 Europ
- http://nespole.itc.it

WASPAA'97 Home page
- IEEE 1997 Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics.
- http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/waspaa97/

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.
- http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/

International Phonetic Association
- Provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages: the International Phonetic Alphabet.
- http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html

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
- http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/

Cassette of Phonetic Sounds
- For speech researchers interested in a standard for phonetic sounds. From University College of London.
- http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/cassette.htm