Webport@l to Speech and Text to Speech related sites

Expo's and trade shows
AVIOS - American Voice I/O Society
Computer Telephony Show
SpeechTEK COMTEK International
TechTALKS
Voice Portals convention

Organisations and forums
SALT Forum Speech Application Language Tags
VoiceXML Voice eXtensible Markup Language

Papers and Publications
ASRNews Automatic Speech Recognition News
Int. Journal of Speech Technology research and description of technics
Speech Recognition Update
Speech Technology Magazin

Speech recognition products
Babel Technology BaBear + Babel-ID
Berdy Medical Systems Speech recognition for medical industry
Bell-Lab (Speaking systems)
Daimler Chrysler Aerospace
Dictaphone since March 2000 Lernout & Hauspie, later Scansoft)
Dragon Systems Inc. since May 2000 Lernout & Hauspie, later Scansoft)
Ensigma speech recogniser/verification module for RISC & DSP
Entropic since November 1999 Microsoft
E-Speech E-Speech Synthesizer
IBM Speech ViaVoice
Lernout & Hauspie since 2002 Scansoft
Lucent Technologies
LumenVox
Nuance Communications since May 2006 part of Scansoft
Parlance Corp. Enterprise NameConnector (directory search)
NSC - Natural Speech Communication Ltd.
Philips Speech recognition SpeechMania, SpeechPearl (since october 2002 Scansoft)
Phonetic Systems, Inc. Phonetic Operator (directory search)
Pure Speech Inc. (bought by Voice Control Systems)
Sensory Voice Recognition for embedded applications
Sound Advantage SANDi (PBX assistant, receptionist, dial, voice web)
SpeechCentral portal for speech recognition items
Speech Technology Center produces hardware and software speech products
SpeechWorks since 24--4-2003 part of Nuance/Scansoft
SyVox or SyVox Europe (formerly Speech Systems Inc.) RxP systems for locally mobile workers
T-NETIX speaker verification SpeakEZ
TCTS Lab - Mons
Ultimate Technology
Unisys Corp. Speech Solutions
Viecore IBM Websphere - SpeechWorks Bridge
Vocollect Talkman, voice controlled order picking system
Voice Connection Inc.
Voice Control Systems since May 9th, 1999 Philips
Voxware
Wildfire Speech controlled automated attendant

· Dealers of these speech products
VoCognition (Western Europe) Talkman
Voice Data Systems/Simac (NL) SpeechWorks

Speech recognition software for PC applications
· PC Speech recognition software products
Babel Technology English, French, German and Dutch
Diktat Starten All about speech recognition (German)
Dragon Systems Naturally Speaking or Natural Speak
Fonix Corp. medical dictation system PowerScribe
IBM ViaVoice
Lernout & Hauspie Voice Xpress
MDT (NL) TalkKey Dutch language (juridical, medical); product is exit
Microsoft Speech site
Philips FreeSpeech 98 or Philips FreeSpeech 2000
Speethon Sayline, a speech interface for AutoCAD

· Dutch dealers of PC Speech products
Advance Voice Techn. - Lernout & Hauspie
Advance Voice Techn. - Dragon Systems Inc.
Advance Voice Techn. or AVT
Databalk juridical
DSH electronics Winspraak and BlindTalks
G2speech medical + juridical
Kanteff Speech Processing juridical, medical
Kompagne juridical
Software Totaal online shop for products
Speechcom medical

· Dealers of PC Speech products in other countries
Computernerdz IBM, L&H and Dragon
Grover Industries
Odyssey Micro Techn. Also free T2S software
Pacific Voice Medical; L&H and Dragon
Speech Technology (USA)
textHELP Systems software for people with reading and writing difficulties
Voice Talk (USA; medical, legal)
Voice Recognition (USA)

Services
Share Us Amsterdam Digital dictating (SAAS)

Links to Speech Recognition and Text-to-speech sites
Cnet speech recognition -- technology
LookSmart speech recognition
Russ Wilcox's speech links
Search list of speech recognition sites
Softseek speech recognition and T2S
University of Edinburgh list of TTS demo's
Yahoo speech recognition

Text-to-speech products
AcuVoice SDK and PC version
Acapela
AT & T (Bell) English, Mandarin and German
Babel Technology English, French, German, Dutch and 5 others
Berkeley Speech Tech. Text-to-speech
Centigram TruVoice
Elan or Elan now Lernout & Hauspie
Eloquent Techn. ETI Eloquence (since Dec. 2000 SpeechWorks)
Entropic since November 1999 Microsoft
Fluency Dutch (since September 1999 Van Dale)
Fonix Corp. AcuVoice
IBM TTS - ViaVoice
Japplis Speech freely available
Lucent Techn. Bell Labs Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Nuance RealSpeak
Rhetorical
Scansoft RealSpeak (formely Lernout & Hauspie)
SpeechWorks Speechify
TCTS Lab - Mons research
Telcordia (formerly Bellcore) Orator II
Ultimate Technology

Text to Speech software for PC applications
· Products
AcuVoice reader
Black Ice speech synthesis SDK with Active X control
EconoNet International, Inc. Simply Talker (screen reader)
Email lezer Dutch email reader (Fluency/Van Dale)
First Byte
Gus Communications
Read please TTS
Scansoft RealSpeak (formely Lernout & Hauspie)
Sound Advantage SANDi (email assistant and speech recogn.)
SoftVoice TTS
Willow Pond

· Resellers of T2S applications (NL)
Kompagne Dutch TTS appl. for handicapped people
Komfa Software Dutch TTS appl. for handicapped people
Polderland T2S and linguistics
Vocalibur Language and Speech Techn. Dutch TTS applications

· Various
UPenn comparison of several TTS engines

Various things
Laureate TTS of BT Labs in England
Texas Instruments DSP chips
Winbond (Integrated Storage Devices) speech recognition chip

· Dutch related
Nederlandse Taalunie Dutch language
Stichting NOTaS promotion org. for Dutch firms and research
TST-Platform Platform for Dutch language in "Taal- en SpraakTechnologie"

· Research
Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Speech at CMU Web Page
ELSnet European Network of Excellence in Human Language Techn.
The Digital Camridge Research Laboratory
Stanford (USA) speech recognition/TTS
TCTS Lab - Mons (BE) speech recognition/TTS
University of Amsterdam (NL) Project speech recognition
University of Nijmegen (NL) Project page speech recognition
University of Utrecht (NL) Institute of Linguistics OTS

Voice XML stuff
· Standards:
OpenVXI VoiceXML interpreter
Open VXI open source VoiceXML on Sourceforge.net
Open VXI in German language
PHP Voice Open Source library for VoiceXML
VoXML Voice eXtensible Markup Language (Motorola); (adding speech to webpages)
VoiceXML Voice eXtensible Markup Language (adding speech to webpages)
VoiceXMLCentral VoiceXML search engine and community
VoiceXML Forum
VoiceXML Planet Technology and Business
VoiceXML Review
XML Spy

· Development:
HeyAnita FreeSpeech Developer Network

Web speech
Ananova Spoken News via Internet
Pipebeach Speechweb platform
Speechsolutions Speechrecognition and TTS for a browser
SpeecHTML
Telera Speech enabled web IVR (since June 2002 Genesys/Alcatel)
TellPoint Voice Suite for VoiceXML-based applications
VoiceGenie VoiceXML Gateways, Development Environments, and Tools; since 2006 part of Genesys
VOIP dynamicsoft SIP stack Open source
W3C Voice browser working group

· Voice portals for phone and internet:
Bevocal VoiceXML
HeyAnita Voice software. hosting and services
Quack VoiceXML
Tellme VoiceXML, GSL (since March 2007 Microsoft)


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