Computers Speech Technology Speech Synthesis

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• Advanced Technology and Research - Markets a variety of speech products for industry including voiceprint, text to speech and airport security systems. Good online text to speech demo.
• Analogue Speech Synthesizers - 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.
• Audio Generator for the web - Site offers technique to add your own voice to web pages and e-mails.
• CompSpeak 2050 - 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.
• Demonstrations of Simulated Emotional Speech - Collection of links and sound-examples of simulated emotional speech by synthesis.
• Digalo TTS engine - 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.
• Emofilt - Prosody-filter to simulate emotional arousal with speech synthesis based on the free-for-non-commercial-use MBROLA synthesis engine available in Java.
• ETeX AG - Text-To-Speech & Voice Recordings - 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.
• German text-to-speech systems - A commented overview of commercial and scientific TTS (text-to-speech) -systems for the German language with examples.
• InfoQuick Software Technology Corp. - Focus on speech technology research and development in Chinese language, including TTS and ASR.
• Introduction to the Java Speech API - A short introduction to speech synthesis with the Java speech API 1.0
• Moehler's Speech Synthesis Examples - Commented examples of speech synthesis for 25 languages.
• NeXTeNS: Text-to-Speech for Dutch - 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.
• Phobos Soft - Provides a speech synthesizer for the Romanian language, and audio applications for speech/music effects. On-line speech synthesizer demo.
• RC Systems - Text to speech synthesis products. Boards, modules, and chips. Downloadable data sheets and product information.
• Sayvoice - Provides text to speech software for natural voice. Online demo, screen shots, and voice samples.
• Speech and Software Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd. - 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.
• Speech Synthesis - Overview article from free encyclopedia Wikipedia.
• Speech Synthesis Markup Language - 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.
• SpeechArabia - Provides Arabic / multi language voice interface solutions, for individuals and corporate. Initial offerings focus on tect to speech applications.
• SpokenText.net a free online text to audio converter - 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.
• TalkingOnline.com - Online speech-synthesizer with very limited capabilities.
• text-talk - Offers limited English and Lithuanian TTS over Web interface with Mbrola speech engine.
• Text-to-Speech, Occidental Communications - Directory of TTS links.
• Tutorial On Speech Synthesis - Interactive tutorial of speech synthesis technology by German university.
• Voice Synthesis IC and Speech Synthesizer chips - TextSpeak(tm) speech synthesis chip sets and plug-in modules accept RS-232 text, keyboard and wireless input. Low cost, unlimited vocabulary, designed for consumer and VARs. Purchase online.
• Web Site Speech Plug-in - 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.