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International Phonetic Association - http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html
Provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages: the International Phonetic Alphabet. |
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Univ. Of Pennsylvania Speech Resource - http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/
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. |
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Centre for Speech Technology Research - http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk
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. |
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AVIOS - http://www.avios.com/
The Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS) is a research group dedicated to "real world" applications using speech technology. |
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The Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) - http://www.clsp.jhu.edu
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 and research workshops. |
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Haskins Laboratory at Yale University - http://www.haskins.yale.edu/index.html
Concentrates on speech synthesis, speech perception. |
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Liberated Learning Project - http://www.liberatedlearning.com/
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. |
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Microsoft Speech Technology Group - http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/srg/
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. |
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TC-STAR Project: - http://www.tc-star.org
Technology and corpora for speech to speech translation project - includes information and details on the project, partners, public documents and news. |
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Speech Recognition Group, Univ. of Cambridge - http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/research/speech/
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 retrieval, speech synthesis and machine learning. |
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Cassette of Phonetic Sounds - http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/cassette.htm
For speech researchers interested in a standard for phonetic sounds. From University College of London. |
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University of Sheffield Speech and Hearing Research Group - http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/
Researches computational modeling of auditory and speech perception in humans and machines, robustness in speech recognition, and large vocabulary speech recognition systems and their applications. |
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Nespole - http://nespole.itc.it
"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. |
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National Center for Sign Language and Gesture Resources - http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/cslgr/
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. |
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Pfstar Project - http://pfstar.itc.it
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. |
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LIMSI Spoken Language Processing Group - http://www.limsi.fr/tlp/
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. |
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Speech-based and Pervasive Interaction Group - http://www.cs.uta.fi/research/hci/spi/
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. |
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Speech synthesis and prosody papers - http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~dspiliot/
Webpages of Dimitris Spiliotopoulos. Research in speech synthesis, intonation, prosody, natural language, talking robots. |
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Automatic Speech Recognition - http://www.ece.msstate.edu/research/isip/projects/speech/
Creates a freely available, modular, state-of-the-art speech recognition system that can be easily modified to suit research needs. |
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Speech Processing and Signal Analysis Group FEL CTU - http://noel.feld.cvut.cz/speechlab/
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. |
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(USA) Responsive Virtual Human Technology - http://www.rvht.info
An NSF funded project led by Research Triangle Institute studying spoken language interaction with virtual characters. |
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Farsi speech research - http://mehr.sharif.edu/~ayat
Speech processing in Farsi, especially speech enhancement, by Saeed Ayat, Tehran |
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Recognition Technologies - http://www.recognitiontechnologies.com
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. |
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Vishwac Sena - http://www.vishwacsena.co.in
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. |
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Speech Structure Recognition - http://www.geocities.jp/onsei2007/index-e.html
Speech recognition based on inner structure. Pattern recognition method to estimate which the inner structure of the spoken phoneme. |
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Speed of Sound, Inc. - http://www.speedofsound.biz
Performs speech data collection and transcription in order to assist vendors and researchers in the training and evaluation of speech-recognition systems. |
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IHear Machine Hearing Research - http://www.ihear.com
Services, products and information to enable hearing in machines. Includes some demos and details of models of complex sound pattern recognition. |
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Assistive Speech Technology Research Labs - http://www.members.aol.com/rickp007/
Minnesota based research startup. Exploring possibilities for people with disabilities through the research of speech technology. |
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Speech Dialog Experiments - http://david.portabella.name/dialogue/
Investigates a method used to help developers verify their dialog models. Multimodal implementation for VoiceXML is given. Free binaries and source code. |
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Speech Group ESAT/KULeuven Belgium - http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/psi/spraak/
Site of the Leuven research group on speech technology (speech recognition, speech coding, and speech modification). |
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MIT Spoken Language Systems Group - http://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls//sls-blue-noflash.shtml
Research initiatives for improving the interaction between people and computers via natural spoken language. Publications, news and events, and profiles of researchers. |
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NIST Speech Group - http://www.nist.gov/speech/index.htm
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 building prototype systems. |
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Speech at Carnegie Mellon University - http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/
Dedicated to speech technology research, development, and deployment. Offers open source speech software, speech and language projects, publications, and resources. |
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Greek Dictation - http://www.telecom.tuc.gr/~ntsourak/logotypographos.htm
From the Speech Recognition Group of the Technical University of Crete. Work in progress. |