| Websites in Speech Synthesis |
- AT&T Natural Voices
Features a line of speech synthesis products. Demos on the site.
 http://www.naturalvoices.att.com
- Acapela Group
Merger of TTS companies Babeltech, Elan and Infovox. Many TTS-engines with online demonstrations.
http://www.acapela-group.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/
- An Introduction to Text-To-Speech Synthesis
Detailed introduction of all aspects of speech synthesis by Thierry Dutoit (leading expert).
http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/introtts.html
- Analogue Speech Synthesizers
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.
http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/davies/vocpage.htm
- Audio Generator for the web
Site offeres technique to add your own voice to web pages and e-mails.
http://audiogenerator.com/
- Babel Techonologies
Multilingual text to speech technologies for telecom, embedded and multimedia applications. Available in 17 languages.
http://www.babeltech.com/
- CSLU Speech Synthesis
Center for speech synthesis research, with demos and downloads available. Has a singing voice synthesis project.
http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/tts/index.html
- CalSoft - White Paper
Brief exploration of the issues of voice enabled application building in enterprises.
http://www.californiasw.com/techcenter/voicesolutions.html
- Cepstral Speech Synthesis
Small footprint text-to-speech synthesis suitable for mobile, handheld, and wearable computers. Provides a variety of voices and accents. Effective on line demo of speech quality.
http://www.cepstral.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
- DEMOSTHeNES Speech Composer
A general-purpose multilingual and polyglot software text-to-speech (TTS) system that supports the Greek language using a wide variety of e-text sources. Free download has an open and component based architecture allowing flexibility, customization and expandability.
http://www.di.uoa.gr/speech/synthesis/demosthenes/en/information.shtml
- Demonstrations of Simulated Emotional Speech
Collection of links and sound-examples of simulated emotional speech by synthesis.
http://emosamples.syntheticspeech.de/
- 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.
http://www.digalo.com
- E-Speech
Unusual text-to-speech synthesis offerings including name pronunciation software for speech recognition dictionaries and other custom applications.
http://www.espeech.com
- ESOPOS-Greek TTS
An unusual downloadable program for Win 95/98 that does Greek text-to-speech processing.
http://esopos.ee.auth.gr
- ETeX AG - Text-To-Speech & Voice Recordings
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.
http://www.etex.de
- 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
- Emic
Hardware Voice Response Card from Parallax.
http://www.emicplatform.com/
- Fonix Corporation
Text-to-speech vendor with demo. Free clock application download for PC.
http://www.fonix.com
- Fonix SpeakThis
Subscription service that lets you add speech to your website using automatically generated HTML you paste into your pages. Support for many voices and languages.
http://www.speakthis.com
- FreeTTS - Java speech synthesis
A speech synthesis system written entirely in the Java(TM) programming language. Based upon Flite: a smallrun-time speech synthesis engine developed at Carnegie Mellon University and derived from the Festival Speech Synthesis System from the University of Edinburgh and the FestVox project from Carnegie Mellon University.
http://freetts.sourceforge.net
- French speech synthesis
LAIPTTS is a high-quality speech synthesis for French. Freely downloadable for non-commercial purposes. Small footprint of 350k. Online synthesis demo.
http://www.unil.ch/imm/docs/LAIP/LAIPTTS.html
- German text-to-speech systems
A commented overview of commercial and scientific TTS (text-to-speech) -systems for the German language with examples.
http://ttssamples.syntheticspeech.de
- 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
- Hindi Text-to-Speech Engine
Experimental TTS engine for Hindi language along with application. Download free.
http://www.balasainet.com/members/parthmehta/Index.html
- IBM Text-to-Speech Research
IBM Text-to-Speech (TTS) Research interactive demo, multi lingual, unconstrained.
http://www.research.ibm.com/tts/
- IMS: German Research Group
Speech synthesis group at the IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany: Online demo, speaking metro information system, various speech synthesis example sand some downloads. Research is concentrating on getting good prosidy (inflection).
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/synthesis/
- InfoQuick Software Technology Corp.
Focus on speech technology research and development in Chinese language, including TTS and ASR.
http://www.infoquick.com.cn
- 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.
http://www.infovox.se
- Java Applet for Speech Synthesis
Java applet/software for speech synthesis using the concatenation method. Currently developing formant synthesis version.
http://www.say-it-now.com
- Loquendo
TTS manufacturer from Italy, support for many languages, online demonstration available.
http://www.loquendo.com/en/technology/TTS.htm
- Matrubhasha
A Unicode and MBROLA based software solution for text to speechsSynthesis (TTS) in Indian languages.
http://www.ncb.ernet.in/matrubhasha/
- Mindmaker
Sells FlexVoice (TM), a text-to-speech (TTS) engine. Online demo shows good prosidy.
http://www.flexvoice.com/
- Moehler's Speech Synthesis Examples
Commented examples of speech synthesis for 25 languages.
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~moehler/synthspeech/examples.html
- NeXTeNS: Text-to-Speech for Dutch
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.
http://nextens.uvt.nl/
- Nuance Vocalizer
TTS software. Data sheet, and demos.
http://www.nuance.com/prodserv/prodvocalizer.html
- PanaVox Speech Servers
PanaVox is a text to speech technology for acessibility, advertising, and content enhancement which works on narrowband connected computers and requires no specialized software.
http://panavox.panaserve.net
- Parth Meta TTS-Development
Development of customer-specific TTS-solutions by Indian Computer-Science students.
http://ttssystem.balasainet.com
- RC Systems
Text to speech synthesis products. Boards, modules, and chips. Downloadable data sheets and product information.
http://www.rcsys.com
- Rhetorical Systems
Builds high-quality voices, which in many applications are indistinguishable from the real voices on which they are modeled. The core product, rVoice, has a wide range of synthesized voices including several regional accents and speaking styles. Impressive demo on site.
http://www.rhetoricalsystems.com
- SVOX Interactive Text to Speech Demo
TTS-Demo of University of Zurich. Makes an .au file of German (only) text typed at web site.
http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/cgi-bin/w3svox
- Sakrament
Speech recognition and synthesis software company, particularly Russian language.
http://www.sakrament-speech.com
- Speech Synthesis
Overview article from free encyclopedia Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis
- 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.
http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/
- 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
- Speech-Ware
Danish company selling Danish natural language text-to-speech and speech recognition products.
http://www.speech-ware.dk
- TTS Update
Provides side by side audio samples of various commercial text-to-speech synthesis technology vendors as well as state of the art commentary.
http://www.tmaa.com/tts/index.htm
- TalkingOnline.com
Online speech-synthesizer with very limited capabilities.
http://www.talkingonline.com
- Teknoses Speech Solutions
Turkish Text-To-Speech engine for Microsoft Agent and SAPI compliant applications. Trial version downloadable.
http://www.teknoses.com
- The Festvox Project
Free software tools and documentation for building new speech synthesis voices in English and other languages. From Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.festvox.org
- The MBROLA PROJECT
Multi-lingual text to speech synthesis. Free multi platform software download for research purposes.
http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/
- TutoGig's Speech Synthesis
Short tutorial on Speech synthesis methods.
http://www.tutorgig.com/ed/speech_synthesis
- Tutorial On Speech Synthesis
Interactive tutorial of speech synthesis technology by German university.
http://www.ias.et.tu-dresden.de/sprache/lehre/multimedia/tutorial/rahmen.htm
- Vaja Thai Text-to-Speech Synthesis
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.
http://www.links.nectec.or.th/vaja
- Voice Synthesis IC and Speech Synthesizer chips
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.
http://www.textspeak.com/oemtts.htm
- Voiceinterconnect GmbH
Wide range of products and services for embedded electronics including echo cancellation, DSP, speaker independent recognition and text to speech.
http://www.voiceinterconnect.de/index.php?newLanguage=en
- 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.
http://www.speaksforitself.com
- e-rhetor
Develops applications and systems that support the Greek language. Current products include a series of high quality Text-to-Speech products for the telecommunications and multimedia market.
http://www.e-rhetor.com
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