Research

Research Related Topics

• Top: Computers: Algorithms: Speech Recognition

Research Links

• Russian Speech Database Russian firm offering a large collection of .wav files containing Russian speaker samples on CD. Useful for voice and speech recognition research.
  
• National Institute for Telecommunications Signal and Imaging Department Mostly signal processing of speech.
  
• Cassette of Phonetic Sounds For speech researchers interested in a standard for phonetic sounds. From University College of London.
  
• Speech User Interfaces 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.
  
• National Center for Sign Language and Gesture Resources 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.
  
• Microsoft Speech Technology Group 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.
  
• Tempus-3D An interesting research tool for displaying voice spectra as recorded in .WAV files.
  
• Speech Group ESAT/KULeuven Belgium Site of the Leuven research group on speech technology (speech recognition, speech coding, speech modification, etc.)
  
• Bibliography Phonetics / Speech Technology On-line search facility at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main
  
• Conversational Computer - Weather - Jupiter An MIT Spoken Language Systems research project which gives the weather in 500+ worldwide cities in response to voice inquiries. Toll free number listed at site.
  
• WASPAA'97 Home page IEEE 1997 Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics.
  
• Conversational Computers - Potpourri The complete collection of MIT Spoken Language Systems Group conversational computers including ones that tell you about Boston area restaurants, Boston traffic conditions, automobile claasified ads, air flight prices etc.
  
• Scientific American -August 1999 Feature Article: "Talking with your computer" State of the art "Oxygen" project at MIT. Overview of the latest attempts to have useful conversations with a computer.
  
• Speech Technology Research Resource List List of web sites related to phonetics and speech sciences: meetings, research centers, electronic newsletters, journals and publishers
  
• The Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing University of Shefield "Moby" project. A public domain word list for several languages, thesaurus, pronunciation guide and the complete works of Shakespeare
  
• Conversational Computer - Air Flights - Pegasus An MIT Spoken Language Systems research project which gives airplane flight arrival times in response to voice inquiries. Toll free number listed at site.
  
• Haskins Laboratory at Yale University Concentrates on speech synthesis, speech perception.
  
• Nespole "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 Euopean and American participants.
  
• Univ. Of Pennsylvania Speech Resource 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.
  
• AVIOS The Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS) is a research group dedicated to "real world" applications using speech technology.
  
• Speech Synthesis Papers Links to research projects and publications of Alex Monaghan. Esoteric and sometimes homey.
  
• International Phonetic Association Provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages: the International Phonetic Alphabet.
  
• Assistive Speech Technology Research Labs Minnesota based research startup. Exploring possibilities for people with disabilities through the research of speech technology.