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Speech Synthesis Markup Language - http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/
The current version of the (draft) proposal for an XML-based Speech Synthesis Markup Language, as part of the W3C's Speech Interface Framework. This is an industry standard in the making. |
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Speech Synthesis - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis
Overview article from free encyclopedia Wikipedia. |
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RC Systems - http://www.rcsys.com
Text to speech synthesis products. Boards, modules, and chips. Downloadable data sheets and product information. |
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SpokenText.net a free online text to audio converter - http://www.spokentext.net/
Convert Microsoft Word, Acrobat PDF, PowerPoint, plain text files, web pages, and emails to spoken audio which you can then listen to online or transfer to your iPod. News, tutorials, and product features. |
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Digalo TTS engine - http://www.digalo.com
Text-To-Speech engine for Microsoft Agent and SAPI compliant applications. Available in 7 languages (French, German, Spanish, US English, British, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese). Licensed Elan TTS-engine. Download free trial. |
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Web Site Speech Plug-in - http://www.speaksforitself.com
Site provides a free, cross platform (Windows and MacOS), cross browser (Netscape and IE) plug-in that gives web sites the ability to talk by transforming text to speech. |
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NeXTeNS: Text-to-Speech for Dutch - http://nextens.uvt.nl/
The NeXTeNS project aims at developing a modern, clean, multi-platform, open source text-to-speech system for Dutch that is freely available for research and education purposes using Mbrola and Festival components. Initiated by University of Nijmegen and the University of Tilburg. |
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InfoQuick Software Technology Corp. - http://www.infoquick.com.cn
Focus on speech technology research and development in Chinese language, including TTS and ASR. |
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ETeX AG - Text-To-Speech & Voice Recordings - http://www.etex.de
German firm selling text-to-speech solutions, based on unit selection and diphones. ETeX uses its recording studio (specialized for voice recordings) for text-to-speech voices, voice prompts, and spoken manuals. |
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Moehler's Speech Synthesis Examples - http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~moehler/synthspeech/examples.html
Commented examples of speech synthesis for 25 languages. |
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Phobos Soft - http://www.phobos.ro/
Provides a speech synthesizer for the Romanian language, and audio applications for speech/music effects. On-line speech synthesizer demo. |
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CompSpeak 2050 - http://www.compspeak2050.org
Institute for the Study of Talking Computers and Oral Culture. The Institute's mission is to study the social, cultural, and philosophical implications of talking computers and voice recognition technology. Site taking orders for a pre-publishing book having a provocative viewpoint on the impact of talking computers. |
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Audio Generator for the web - http://audiogenerator.com/
Site offers technique to add your own voice to web pages and e-mails. |
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Emofilt - http://emofilt.sourceforge.net/
Prosody-filter to simulate emotional arousal with speech synthesis based on the free-for-non-commercial-use MBROLA synthesis engine available in Java. |
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Demonstrations of Simulated Emotional Speech - http://emosamples.syntheticspeech.de/
Collection of links and sound-examples of simulated emotional speech by synthesis. |
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German text-to-speech systems - http://ttssamples.syntheticspeech.de
A commented overview of commercial and scientific TTS (text-to-speech) -systems for the German language with examples. |
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Introduction to the Java Speech API - http://ociweb.com/jnb/jnbMar2006.html
A short introduction to speech synthesis with the Java speech API 1.0 |
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Speech and Software Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd. - http://www.sstil.com
One of India's global IT services and product-engineering companies, providing a wide range of speech-based IT solutions such as automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, computer telephony, IVR, speaker verification and a version of IBM ViaVoice customized for an Indian accent. |
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SpeechArabia - http://www.speecharabia.com
Provides Arabic / multi language voice interface solutions, for individuals and corporate. Initial offerings focus on tect to speech applications. |
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Sayvoice - http://www.sayvoice.com/
Provides text to speech software for natural voice. Online demo, screen shots, and voice samples. |
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TalkingOnline.com - http://www.talkingonline.com
Online speech-synthesizer with very limited capabilities. |
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Advanced Technology and Research - http://www.atr.net/
Markets a variety of speech products for industry including voiceprint, text to speech and airport security systems. Good online text to speech demo. |
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Analogue Speech Synthesizers - http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/davies/vocpage.htm
Reviewing Vocoders and musical chorus synthesizers by EMS, Moog, Roland, Korg, and Electro Harmonics, talking chips (Votrax, TI) and speech recognition hardware. Information site rather than sales. |
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Tutorial On Speech Synthesis - http://www.ias.et.tu-dresden.de/sprache/lehre/multimedia/tutorial/rahmen.htm
Interactive tutorial of speech synthesis technology by German university. |
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text-talk - http://www.text-talk.com
Offers limited English and Lithuanian TTS over Web interface with Mbrola speech engine. |