Speech Technology

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.

Provider of enterprise voice mobility solutions that provide single number reachability, real-time notification and conferencing, and voice continuity. News, events, partners, and knowledge center.

Concentrates on speech synthesis, speech perception.

Provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages: the International Phonetic Alphabet.

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.

Research initiatives for improving the interaction between people and computers via natural spoken language. Publications, news and events, and profiles of researchers.

TTS engine Realspeak available in many languages. Company (former Scansoft) bought many TTS-manufacturers, e.g. Rhetorical, ETI-Eloquence, Nuance, Lernhout and Hauspie.

Develops speech recognition, voice authentication, text-to-speech and VoiceXML based voice-browsing products and development tools for telephone access.

The current version of the (draft) proposal for an XML-based Speech Synthesis Markup Language, as part of the W3Cs Speech Interface Framework. This is an industry standard in the making.

Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system developed at CSTR. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques.

Linguistic Data Consortiuman 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.

Online store offering Dragon, Lernout and Hauspie, IBM software as well as microphones and digital recorders for dictation and transcription.

Merger of TTS companies Babeltech, Elan and Infovox. Many TTS-engines with online demonstrations.

Features a line of speech synthesis products. Demos on the site.

A provider of carrier-grade solutions for creating and delivering next-generation enhanced services, as well as tools and resources for building, testing and deploying voice applications.