Speech Technology
Speech Technology Links
- HAL Hits the Home Voice recognition software (with product names HAL2000 etc.) for Windows 95/98 that supports air conditioning, telephony, infrared, Internet, X-10 and security - for use in home systems. Site gives audio examples of the interactions possible.
- Speech Technology Center Russian organization providing unusual variety of speech processing products and services for research and development, speech recognition, voice verification, speaker identification, noise reduction in speech signals, noise cancellation, forensic examination, audio analysis, logging and communication channel protection.
- Voice Applications, Inc. Knowledgeable and un-hyped web site explaining business applications of speech and voice technology.
- Answers For Executives. Fast loading, informative site addressing typical questions executives might have about speech recognition for offices and companies. Contains product reviews, installation guidelines, provocative analysis of the industry for people who would rather use voice technology instead of typing.
- Game Commander Speaker independent (no training required) voice control software for Windows games replaces keystrokes with voice commands for popular games. Template files, patches, message boards, downloads, free trial version.
- Speech FX An ongoing speech recognition project for the Apple Macintosh, currently concentrating on enhancing command and control.
- Mobilethink Danish startup specializing in developing mobile phone speech solutions that are integrated with Internet information systems.
- IMSI Software IMSI Utilities Group licenses IBM ViaVoice technology to produce their own line of "VoiceDirect" dictation software.
- MS Agent Characters and Software Microsoft Agent based command and control uses voice to browse the web, receive email, schedule appointments and participate in chat groups.
- Open Source Speech Recognition System Carnegie Mellon Sphinx project. Real-time continuous speech recognition system. Downloadable source.
- Talking Desktop Speech recognition, text-to-speech software transforms your Windows computer into a conversational desktop companion. Dictation, web navigation, voice Email, web cams, on-line news, weather maps, stock ticker, MP3 music player & 3D avatar. Project in progress.
- VoiceXML Version 1.0 Specification Complete specification as submitted to W3C (.PDF format). Useful for anyone designing vxml interpreters or wishing to understand the extensive capbilities for dialogs. Long but quite readable for a technical document.
- HAL2000 Distributor / UK UK distributor of HAL2000 voice-activated home operating system.
- Speak Freely for Windows An Internet phone program for talking to someone PC-to-PC over a network, i.e., a voice chat program. No banner ads! No phone charges. Has encryption hooks, "answering machine," Unix/Linux versions. Also has facility to run a phonebook addressing server so that you can find out who else is on-line just like the "commercial" chat programs. Integrates with ICQ. Good voice quality. Very popular. Free software download includes C++ source code for those interested in tinkering.
- PGPfone Pretty Good Privacy Internet Phone allows encrypted talking over a network. MAC and PC versions available.
- Dragon Systems A worldwide leader in PC and MAC speech recognition. Offerings include desktop and mobile dictation, telephony, vertical market add-ons and developers' tools. Acquired by Lernout and Hauspie.
- Literacy Center, LLC Assists individuals with literacy goals through evaluation, educational programming, and assistive technology such as speech recognition technology.
- Voice Solutions for Warehouse and Manufacturing Environments Guardian Business Solutions, Inc. provides speech software for business applications including voice warehouse picking and inventory counting. Partnered with Syvox for warehouse applications; has own software for the manufacturing arena.
- Lernout & Hauspie An international leader in advanced speech and linguistic solutions for computers, automobiles, telecommunications, embedded products, consumer products and the Internet. Acquired Kurzweil and Dragon, partners with Microsoft and Intel. High powered in telephony and language translation, trying hard to catch up in consumer products. Also offers transcription services.
- Titan Technology Leading Russian organization engaged in developing speech recognition technology.
- Commercial Speech Recognition Site name a bit misleading. It is a broad collection of site links to speech recognition companies, services, products, magazines, trade shows, books and online resources with a brief personal summary of each.
- Unix Speech Recognition Special Synapse TAP Workstation translates speech into mouse events and keystrokes to control all environments - Unix, mainfame, Mac etc. with speech recognition.
- IBM Software - Speech Recognition Big Blue's ViaVoice offerings in the desktop continuous speech dictation arena. Competes with Dragon, Lernout & Hauspie and Philips. Has mobile dictation and telephony products as well. Has continuous speech recognition for the Apple Macintosh and Linux. Free Linux SDK.
- Wizzard Software Desktop command and control software with speech recognition facilities. Useful tips on getting better accuracy.
- Natural Language Recognition Simplis, Inc, provides a Java based "natural language" speech recognition interface designed to simplify access to existing programs and web applications.
- Conversa Conversational Computing Corporation Sells application specific speech enabled products. Current products include a version of Internet Explorer which responds to voice, an office messaging system, speech SDK's for mobile devices.
- Speech and Handwriting Recognition Advanced Recognition Technologies, Inc. - designs, develops and distributes speech and handwriting recognition software products and technologies focusing on embedded software for cellular devices, mobile communicators, and PDAs.
- Speech Recognition News and Studies TMA Associates publishes Speech Recognition Update, an industry newsletter on the business, products, markets, and companies in speech recognition, text-to-speech, and speaker verification. The site contains headlines and recent news, as well as descriptions of TMA conferences and market studies in speech recognition.
- Hand Held Site sells a large-vocabulary continuous speech recognizer that runs on a PDA. Current offering (free beta download) is a voice enabled address book for Win 95, Win 98, Win NT, Win CE, Pocket PC.
- Zvon VoiceXML Reference Complete Voice XML reference with clickable examples.
- Agent Speech Technologies Uses Microsoft's® Agent technology to bring an animated character to your desktop to perform specified voice command tasks for you. Requires several downloads of Microsoft components for trial.
- Speech Recognition for In-car Use Germany based Böhme Datentechnik deals in hands-free systems having echo and noise cancellation features.
- SpeechTechnology Magazine Online edition of the magazine, plus information on an annual speech technology business exposition.
- Voice Pilot Software attaches speech to e-mail. Demo downloads.
- Grover Industries, Inc. Provides command and control applications for internet and desktop contexts.
- Philips Speech Processing FreeSpeech 2000 is Philips' latest entry to the burgeoning continuous speech dictation market. Although the software does not quite have the human factors features of, say, Dragon, it does have multi-lingual recognition for UK English, French, German, Spanish, Italian. Includes an SDK for speech enabling custom applications.
- IMF Solutions Specializes in biometric voice verification products that authenticate your voice. Trial downloads.
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