speech

Voice on the Go
Voice on the Go allows you to listen to, compose, and reply to your email (and more!) BY VOICE on any cell phone, BlackBerry® smartphone, or other Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) - while driving, or any other time.
http://voiceonthego.com

EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation
A non-profit, non-partisan organization working to protect fundamental civil liberties, including privacy and freedom of expression, which opposes patents and copyrights as a violation of freedom of speech.
http://www.eff.org

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
Standford Commencement Address
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/ju...

American Speech-Language Hearing Association
National organization and governing body for speech-language pathologists and audiologists.
http://www.asha.org

Free Speech Internet Television
From Public Communicators Inc.; audios, videos, a newsletter, opportunities, membership information, items for sale, contact and donation information.
http://www.freespeech.org

Perceptual Science Laboratory
The laboratory is engaged in a variety of experimental and theoretical inquiries in perception and cognition. A major research area concerns speech perception by ear and eye, and facial animation. Research activities, people, map, papers and data.
http://mambo.ucsc.edu/

Security Fix
The Washington Post's Brian Krebs writes about a wide range of computer security topics.
http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/

AT&T Natural Voices
Features a line of speech synthesis products. Demos on the site.
http://www.naturalvoices.att.com

Terakeet
Speech recognition application experts specializing in development and deployment of speech recognition systems primarily in call centers.
http://www.terakeet.net/

A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation
The A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation preserves, protects and defends the A.L.I.C.E. and AIML free open source software.
http://alicebot.org/

Open Source Speech Recognition System
Carnegie Mellon Sphinx project. Real-time continuous speech recognition system. Downloadable source for Linux/Unix and Windows NT or later.
http://fife.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/

VoiceXML Forum
Organization dedicated to promoting VXML. Main activities include developer and platform certifications, education (tutorials and newsletters), and tools fostering. Delegates VXML standardisation to W3C. Hosted by IEEE-ISTO.
http://www.voicexml.org/

Linguistic Data Consortium LDC
The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) creates, collects, and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons and other linguistic resources for research and development.
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/

Tellme Networks
Tellme 800 services allow voice query for stocks, sports, news, weather, and horoscopes.
http://www.tellme.com/

Institute for Language and Speech Processing
Founded in Athens (Greece) in 1991 under the auspices of the General Secretariat of Research and Technology of the Ministry of Development. Language tools, Greek text to speech, language processing.
http://www.ilsp.gr

NextUp.com - TextAloud Software
Desktop Reader with extra software to read special news items like stock, weather etc.
http://www.nextup.com

WordCounter
Ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of text. Filters out results to include or exclude small words, to use only root words or allow stemming, and to list 25, 50, or 100 words in order.
http://www.wordcounter.com

How Was Your Day, Dan?
Advice and television reviews from a former cast member from MTV's The Real World.
http://danrenzi.typepad.com/stuff/

Acapela Group
Merger of TTS companies Babeltech, Elan and Infovox. Many TTS-engines with online demonstrations.
http://www.acapela-group.com

The Canterbury Corpus
A set of benchmark results for various lossless compression methods. Includes test files and compression test results for many research compression methods.
http://corpus.canterbury.ac.nz

HCI Mind Module
How to interface humans and artificial minds. Includes links.
http://mind.sourceforge.net/hci.html

Communications Convergence
News, buyers guides and product information from leading experts in the telecom field.
http://www.cconvergence.com/

University of Arkansas Macintosh User Group
Meeting information, news, articles, and member list.
http://mug.uark.edu/

DLG
Offering design, search engine submissions, marketing, database implementation, and consulting.
http://www.davelapierre.com/

Start Stop Transcription and Dictation Foot Pedals
HTH Engineering provides PC-based digital dictation and transcription foot pedal systems and software for medical transcription, dictation, and digital voice recording.
http://www.startstop.com

StepWare, Inc.
AceReader is a Self Improvement Educational Productivity tool for speed reading while on the computer.
http://www.stepware.com/

#Israel
Homepage of channel #Israel.
http://www.channel.israel.net

Alive Text to Speech
Desktop Reader, converts to MP3, WAV, OGG or VOX files from AliveMedia. Trial version downloadable.
http://www.text-speech.com

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.
http://www.tmaa.com

Ferguson, Louise
Consulting services to research, design, and evaluate interactive products. Specialist in medical usability, wireless systems and complex collaborative environments. Located in the UK.
http://www.louiseferguson.com/

Cronus Connection
Links to trippy sites and updated news on the weirdest topics of the day.
http://www.cronus.com/

RJAuburn - Speech and VoIP Industry Blog
Covers the Speech and VoIP industries. RJ Auburn is the CTO of Voxeo Corporation and Chair of the W3C's Call Control subgroup inside the Voice Browser working group.
http://www.rjauburn.com

WhatNET
Site provides mIRC help, Services help, Forum, committee information, general network information, integrated member system and Java chat.
http://www.whatnet.org

Compression Links: GIF
Detailed information, specifications, and background of the Graphics Interchange Format.
http://www.compression-links.info/GIF

Azam IT
Voice recording and management solution for improving communication.
http://www.azamit.com

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.
http://www.atr.net/

Opticom
German-based provider of measuring systems that determine perceived voice, audio and video quality of bandwidth limited channels and compression schemes.
http://www.opticom.de

Digital Dictation
Digital dictation hardware and software supplier to the Asia Pacific region, specialising in Medi-Voice, Legal-Voice and I-Scribe.
http://www.digitaldictation.com.au

VoiceXML Platform Provider
Voxpilot delivers VoiceXML solutions for carriers, enterprises, integrators and service providers. Its flagship product, Voxpilot Open Media Platform, is one of only three platforms independently certified for its conformance to the W3C VoiceXML 2.0 Recommendation.
http://www.voxpilot.com

NeoSpeech
TTS engine VoiceText is available in US English, Korean, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese.
http://www.neospeech.com

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.
http://www.digalo.com

Zabaware
Chatterbot software gives computers a personality. UltraHal is available as a PC assistant (Windows shareware), a web-based demonstration conversation application and an AI bot for websites.
http://www.zabaware.com/

TextAloud MP3
Converts any text into voice and even to MP3. Listen to text, email and web pages on a computer or portable MP3 player.
http://www.nextuptech.com/TextAloud/

La Cantoche Production
Offer consulting, design, animation and development services for Microsoft Agent characterÙ.
http://www.cantoche.com/

Anet Designs
Physical therapy and medical web site designs, maintenance and hosting.
http://www.anetdesigns.com/

Speaking Notepad
Reads text documents aloud with various voices and includes the ability to record to WAV or MP3 sound files.
http://www.qwertystudios.com/

Metaphor Solutions Speech Application Development Tools
A set of tools to develop speech applications based on VXML and SALT markups. Includes dialog design, runtime engine providing stats and call logging, content management, configuration and provisioning editor. Reuses Metaphor script high level languages used in proprietary IVR design.
http://www.metaphorsol.com/dev_tools/

NetPicker
Easily saves and organizes information from the web.
http://www.netpicker.net

Agora Laboratories
Develops and distributes H.323 protocol stacks and video codecs, some of which provide a bridge to newer versions of the ITU-T standards.
http://www.agoralabs.com/

Kingpin
Custom servers running different CS mods. Rentals available for custom configs. 700+ maps to download from highspeed file server.
http://www.thekingpin.net/

Mindmaker
Sells FlexVoice (TM), a text-to-speech (TTS) engine. Online demo shows good prosidy.
http://www.flexvoice.com/

Focus Medical Software
Sells Dragon Naturally Speaking medical transcription software and provides related services in the San Francisco area.
http://www.dragon-medical-transcription.com

ReaderBot
A self-voicing web browser and website accessibility system from Advanced Chatbot Solutions.
http://www.daden.co.uk/chatbots/

Message Technologies, Inc.
IVR programs for patient compliance, locators, and event registration with integrated marketing support.
http://www.messagetech.com/

Hawk Software
Developer of the open source HAWK game engine, and the OpenNL portable networking library for Windows.
http://www.hawksoft.com/

New World Creations
Reseller for speech recognition, transcription, biometrics, microphones, accessories, digital recorders, digital recorder memory, and dictation systems.
http://www.speechtechnology.com/

WordQ Writing Aid Software
Special education writing tool used with standard word processing software to improve spelling, English or French grammar and reading.
http://www.wordq.com

Softnet Systems, Inc.
Extensive list of hints for buyers and users of speech recognition systems. Current focus is on the Dragon NaturallySpeaking product line.
http://www.pcspeak.com

Natspeak Information Pages
An unusual compendium of insider knowledge about Dragon Systems NaturallySpeaking speech recognition products. Downloadable utilities, tips for improved usage as well as a detailed, programmer oriented explanation of techniques for adding extended macro capabilities using Python code and custom grammar files. Generally oriented towards versions 4.0 and lower but still insightful for later versions. Hosted by Synapse Adaptive, provider of a wide range of assistive technologies.
http://www.naturalspeak.com

Speech Recognition for In-car Use
Germany based Böhme Datentechnik deals in hands-free systems having echo and noise cancellation features.
http://www.voice-recognition.de/english/start...

Vianix Corporation
Developed MASC technology (Managed Audio Sound Compression) memory-efficient audio compression algorithm providing voice emulation.
http://www.vianix.com/

IVR Technology Group
Provides development and hosting of customized, automated ASP IVR services.
http://www.ivrtechgroup.com/

ByteCool Software Inc.
CoolSpeech is a text-to-speech player for Windows, listen to online news, emails, local text documents, typing, tell the time and date, convert text into wav files.
http://www.bytecool.com/

Invores Systems
Provides VoiceXML based, platform independent, software systems that run on standard servers without additional telephony hardware. The systems integrate directly into SIP based VoIP environments or through telephony gateways.
http://invores.com

Thinphone
Subscription based simple email-to-phone or fax service for reminders and alerts. Text-to-speech delivery to one or more phones.Can also deliver .DOC, .WAV and .MP3 files. Not for solicitation or telemarketing.
http://www.thinphone.com

Speech Desk
New York State corporation specializing in messaging and voice technologies, which also offers a web accessibility and Section 508 compliance service.
http://www.speechdesk.com/

IVR Q-Voz
IVR and SMS service provider in USA, Mexico, and Latin America for the Hispanic market
http://www.ivr.com.mx

Exaq Micro Services
Specialists in speech recognition and paperless office systems. Site includes background, FAQ and contact information.
http://www.exaq.com

Enterprise Integration Group.
A consulting and design firm for IVR and VoiceXML applications.
http://www.eiginc.com

Zephyr-TEC:
Specializes is helping people select and use speech recognition software. World wide training using an instructor-led one-on-one on-line training method.
http://www.zephyr-tec.com

Voice Security Systems Speech Processing
Voice biometric authentication.
http://www.voice-security.com/

Liberated Learning Project
Technology which automatically transcribes spoken language and displays it as readable text. Developing speech recognition technology as a means to accessible and barrier-free learning.
http://www.liberatedlearning.com/

J. Gordon Electronic Design, Inc.
Custom electronic development service spelializing in embedded systems design. Experienced in USB, ethernet/internet, LonWorks and fieldbus applications.
http://www.jged.com

Elan Speech
Elan Speech, dedicated global provider of text-to-speech (TTS) technologies for telecommunications, multimedia, embedded systems and mobile solutions. Provides 2 ranges of speech synthesis technologies for high quality and low footprint requirements. Many languages and voices available for various platforms and operating systems.
http://www.elanspeech.com

Veritape Ltd
Software call recording systems for customer service, staff training.
http://www.veritape.com

AWS - The Dragon People
Specializes in Dragon NaturallySpeaking sales, installation, training, customization, consultation, and support.
http://www.thedragonpeople.com

TalkingOnline.com
Online speech-synthesizer with very limited capabilities.
http://www.talkingonline.com

Emula3
Contains emulators for many different computers and calculators/PDAs for many different platforms. [English/Italian]
http://www.emula3.com

Digital Union
UK web integrator company providing IVR, VoiceXML plus muli-channel strategies using the majority of the IBM Websphere portfolio of software. Also provides strategic sourcing connecting suppliers and customers.
http://www.digitalunion.com

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.
http://www.compspeak2050.org

Hindi Text To Speech System
Bliss Intelligent Technologies offers Hindi text to speech, Hindi OCR, Hindi speech recognition and IVR systems. Based Jaipur, India.
http://www.blissit.org

1st Voice Speech
Dragon NaturallySpeaking reseller. Site has useful comments on Version 7.0 behavior.
http://www.1stvoice.com

Fire Vox - Talking Browser Extension for Firefox
An open source suite of extensions for Firefox that make Firefox into a talking brower for the visually impaired.
http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/

Voxi
Swedish company which develops and licenses a general-purpose software platform, Intelligent Speech Interfaces (TM), involving speech recognition, natural language understanding, and high-quality audio feedback. Targets a wide array of applications ranging from sports to industrial, medicine to inventory control, and entertainment to banking.
http://www.voxi.com/

Voice Automated
Reseller specialty medical vocabularies to be used with Dragon NaturallySpeaking and IBM Via Voice.
http://www.voiceautomated.com

Voice Access to TV Schedule & Listings
Developer and provider of voice access to TV schedule and TV program listings and video descriptive services for vision impaired. Also multimodal access to entertainment content for wireless devices.
http://www.tvvoice.com

Talk2Me
Canadian based Dragon Naturally Speaking reseller. Also provides training and hardware.
http://www.talk2me.com/

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.
http://www.sstil.com

Microphone Specialist
Sells a wide variety of microphones, including wireless types, for speech recognition, voice command, and call centers. Does microphone testing and recommends those which give the best results.
http://www.speechcontrol.com/

Phonologies (India) VoiceXML
Phonologies develops and markets core voice technologies based on VoiceXML and SIP, and customized voice application solutions.
http://www.phonologies.com

OptimTalk - VoiceXML Platform
Modular and scalable platform including VoiceXML 2.0 and CCXML compliant interpreters, a SRGS and SISR implementation and an SDK. Runs on Windows and Linux.
http://www.optimtalk.cz

OptimTalk Desktop Suite
Application suite for development, debugging, and testing VoiceXML and CCXML based applications in-house. Windows and Linux.
http://www.optimsys.cz/products/desktop-suite...

Natlantech
Develops and distributes software for speech analysis, speech recognition and Natural Language processing.
http://www.natlantech.com/

Parlance Corporation
Their NameConnector utilizes speech technology to enable callers to dial one number, say the name and get connected to anyone in the enterprise.
http://www.nameconnector.com

Kickstand Software
Kickstand Software produces Mac software for developers and users.
http://www.kickstandsoft.com

Eurekasoft
Produces intelligent network solutions including a VXML interpreter, telecom multimedia server and ORATEUR Studio, a telecom applications development platform. Based in Chatillon, France
http://www.eurekasoft.fr/gb_index.htm

BCE Elix
Solutions that ease implementation and management of automated customer interactions via self-service and agent assisted touchpoints.
http://www.elixonline.com/

DSP Consulting
Offers DSP and software engineering services (porting, debug, design, legacy migration) for DSP and scientific applications targeted towards embedded real-time and UNIX/NT environments. Ports software from legacy environments (FORTRAN, Pascal, and VMS) to UNIX/NT assist in development of embedded real-time projects.
http://www.dspconsulting.com/

InSync Speech Technologies
Dragon speech recognition software, Andrea microphones, "Buddy" line of USB microphones. Canadian based.
http://www.dragonsys.ca

DMP2004
For Internet and public radio. Has DirectX support for third party plug-ins.
http://www.dmp2004.com

DISC Best Practice Guide
Information, standards and tools to support the development of Spoken Language Dialogue Systems.
http://www.disc2.dk/

CPT Voice Harbor hosting
Vxml hosting platform based in the US (Marietta, GA). Based on VoiceGenie platform with ScanSoft ASR/TTS.
http://www.cptii.com/