Speech Synthesis
Speech Synthesis
Speech Synthesis Links
- Mindmaker Sells FlexVoice (TM), a text-to-speech (TTS) engine. Online demo shows good prosidy.
- SVOX Interactive Text to Speech Demo Makes an .au file of German (only) text typed at web site.
- 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). Download free trial.
- 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.
- AT&T Natural Voices AT&T Labs Natural Voices featuring a line of speech synthesis products. Demos on the site.
- German speech synthesis Speech synthesis group at the IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany: Online demo, speaking metro information system, various speech synthesis examplesand some downloads. Research is concentrating on getting good prosidy (inflection).
- E-Speech Unusual text-to-speech synthesis offerings including name pronunciation software for speech recognition dictionaries and other custom applications.
- 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.
- Web Synthesizer The Archangelis lightweight plugin produces speech along with web surfing. Free download.
- French speech synthesis LAIPTTS is a high-quality speech synthesis for French. Freely downloadable for non-commercial purposes. Small footprint of 350k.
- Elan Text to Speech Elan is a worldwide provider of advanced text-to-speech technology for automotive, desktop and telecom on many platforms and environments. Interactive demo and free download are available for evaluation of speech quality. Many languages supported - American English, British English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Has Linux offerings.
- Festival Speech Synthesis Systems A speech synthesis system for Unix and Windows from University of Edinburgh. English, Spanish and Welsh languages supported. Free download.
- Speechworks Speechify TTS Speechworks have commercialised the AT&T speech synthesis system. For serious industrial developers.
- Free Speech Synthesis Software SpeakEasy is free software that reads text files to you. Downloadable source code.
- Desktop Text to Speech Utility CyberBuddy - a freeware utility program that uses MicroSoft Agents to do Instant Messaging with speech and animation, reminders, time of day, check email, news reports, weather, stock quotes, text reading, and ICQ status reporting.
- 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.
- Fonix Corporation Text-to-speech vendor with demo. Free clock application download for PC.
- Speaker - Text to Speech for Konqueror A text to speech plug in for the KDE desktop file manager under Linux.
- Bell Labs Text-to-Speech Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Text-to-Speech Synthesis demo.
- Analogue Speech Synthesizers Comprehensive site reviewing Vocoders and musical chorus synthesizers by EMS, Moog, Roland, Korg, Electro Harmonics etc, talking chips (Votrax, TI) and speech recognition hardware. Information site rather than sales.
- ESOPOS-Greek TTS An unusual downloadable program for Win 95/98 that does Greek text-to-speech processing.
- RC Systems Affordable text to speech synthesis products. Boards, modules, and chips. Downloadable data sheets and product info.
- Tsinghua University Research Group of Human Computer Speech Interaction covering synthesis, speech recognition, speech coding, speech enhancement, multimedia processing, multimedia communication.
- The MBROLA PROJECT Multi-lingual text to speech synthesis. Free software download for research purposes.
- VoxWorx VoxWorx provides a way to capture the text of an arbitrary site URL and read it to you via RealAudio technology. A interesting work in progress.
- Java Applet for Speech Synthesis Java applet/software for speech synthesis using the concatenation method. Currently developing formant synthesis version.
- Eloquent Technology, Inc. Offers multi-language text-to-speech system that produces good-quality synthesized speech with reasonable sounding voices and intonation.
- CSLU Speech Synthesis Center for speech synthesis research, with demos and downloads available. Has a singing voice synthesis project.
- Infovox Synthetic Speech Text to speech for American and British English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish and Icelandic. Interfaces for MS Windows, Dos, Apple Mac.
- 20th Annual Avios Conference Announces Best Of Show Awards Winners of the Best of Show competition at this year's Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS) Conference and the winners of the Best Paper awards.
- CHIPSpeaking Free speech synthesis software download. More of a demo than a toolkit.
- The Festvox Project Free software tools and documentation for building new speech synthesis voices in English and other languages. From Carnegie Mellon.
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