Knowledge: speech synthesis
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- CompSpeak 2050
http://www.compspeak2050.org - 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.
- Digalo TTS engine
http://www.digalo.com - 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.
- RC Systems
http://www.rcsys.com - Text to speech synthesis products. Boards, modules, and chips. Downloadable data sheets and product information.
- Mindmaker
http://www.flexvoice.com/ - Sells FlexVoice (TM), a text-to-speech (TTS) engine. Online demo shows good prosidy.
- Web Site Speech Plug-in
http://www.speaksforitself.com - 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.
- Speech Synthesis Markup Language
http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/ - 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.
- InfoQuick Software Technology Corp.
http://www.infoquick.com.cn - Focus on speech technology research and development in Chinese language, including TTS and ASR.
- Advanced Technology and Research
http://www.atr.net/ - Markets a variety of speech products for industry including voiceprint, text to speech and airport security systems. Good online text to speech demo.
- Speech and Software Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd.
http://www.sstil.com - 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.
- ETeX AG - Text-To-Speech & Voice Recordings
http://www.etex.de - German firm selling text-to-speech solutions, based on unit selection and diphones. ETeX uses its recording studio (specialized for voice recordings) for text-to-speech voices, voice prompts, and spoken manuals.
- Voice Synthesis IC and Speech Synthesizer chips
http://www.textspeak.com/oemtts.htm - TextSpeak(tm) speech synthesis chip sets and plug-in modules accept RS-232 text, keyboard and wireless input. Low cost, unlimited vocabulary, designed for consumer and VARs. Purchase online.
- NeXTeNS: Text-to-Speech for Dutch
http://nextens.uvt.nl/ - The NeXTeNS project aims at developing a modern, clean, multi-platform, open source text-to-speech system for Dutch that is freely available for research and education purposes using Mbrola and Festival components. Initiated by University of Nijmegen and the University of Tilburg.
- TalkingOnline.com
http://www.talkingonline.com - Online speech-synthesizer with very limited capabilities.
- Audio Generator for the web
http://audiogenerator.com/ - Site offeres technique to add your own voice to web pages and e-mails.
- Vaja Thai Text-to-Speech Synthesis
http://www.nectec.or.th/rdi/vaja/ - Research and development of Thai Text-to-Speech Synthesis at National Electronics and Computer Center. Established in 1998 to research and develope a natural Thai synthesized speech.
- Emofilt
http://emofilt.sourceforge.net/ - Prosody-filter to simulate emotional arousal with speech synthesis based on the free-for-non-commercial-use MBROLA synthesis engine available in Java.
- Voicealizer
http://www.voicealizer.com - Voicealizer enables even the most technophobic web user to get high quality voice recordings onto any web site or blog in minutes using the phone or a microphone.
- Text-to-Speech, Occidental Communications
http://www.occidental.com.au/tts.html - Directory of TTS links.
- SpeechArabia
http://www.speecharabia.com - Provides Arabic / multi language voice interface solutions, for individuals & corporate. Initial offerings focus on tect to speech applications.
- VariTalk
http://www.varitalk.com - Provides a platform for voice respnose systems.
- Analogue Speech Synthesizers
http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/davies/vocpage.htm - Comprehensive site reviewing Vocoders and musical chorus synthesizers by EMS, Moog, Roland, Korg, and Electro Harmonics, talking chips (Votrax, TI) and speech recognition hardware. Information site rather than sales.
- Demonstrations of Simulated Emotional Speech
http://emosamples.syntheticspeech.de/ - Collection of links and sound-examples of simulated emotional speech by synthesis.
- German text-to-speech systems
http://ttssamples.syntheticspeech.de - A commented overview of commercial and scientific TTS (text-to-speech) -systems for the German language with examples.
- Moehler's Speech Synthesis Examples
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~moehler/synthspeech/examples.html - Commented examples of speech synthesis for 25 languages.
- Speech Synthesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis - Overview article from free encyclopedia Wikipedia.
- Tutorial On Speech Synthesis
http://www.ias.et.tu-dresden.de/sprache/lehre/multimedia/tutorial/rahmen.htm - Interactive tutorial of speech synthesis technology by German university.
- Introduction to the Java Speech API
http://ociweb.com/jnb/jnbMar2006.html - A short introduction to speech synthesis with the Java speech API 1.0
- text-talk
http://www.text-talk.com - Offers limited English and Lithuanian TTS over Web interface with Mbrola speech engine.
- SpokenText.net a free online text to audio converter
http://www.spokentext.net/ - Convert Microsoft Word, Acrobat PDF, PowerPoint, plain text files, web pages, and emails to spoken audio which you can then listen to online or transfer to your iPod. News, tutorials, and product features.
- Phobos Soft
http://www.phobos.ro/ - Provides a speech synthesizer for the Romanian language, and audio applications for speech/music effects. On-line speech synthesizer demo.
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